The odds of another U.S. government shutdown taking place by January 31 surged to 79% on Polymarket.
The odds initially rose to above 75% on Saturday (January 24) and were reported to be at 79% on Monday (January 26). Senate Democrats held a conference call on Sunday (January 25) to discuss their strategy to block a Department of Homeland Security funding bill if it didn’t include changes on how immigration enforcement operations were imposed following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, 37, a registered nurse who worked in the ICU at the Minneapolis VA Health Care System, by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis on Saturday, less than a month after Renee Good was fatally shot in the same city by an ICE officer.
The package currently doesn’t have the 60 votes needed and a federal government shut down would begin at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday (January 31). The possibility of another shutdown comes two months after the longest in U.S. history lasting 43 days, which stemmed from President Donald Trump‘s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ act, which was signed into law on November 12.
The president blamed “extremist” Democrats for the record government shutdown, claiming they attempted to “extort American taxpayers” and continued to urge Senate Republicans to “terminate” the filibuster, which he claimed would make the shutdown “never happened again,” and called for the “massive amount” of federal funding for Obamacare to be “paid directly to the people of our country, so that they can buy their own healthcare” at the time.
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