Shutdown-Ending Funding Bill Directs Millions to Pro-Trans Hospitals, Woke Activist Groups
6th February 2026
The bill President Donald Trump signed in order to end the government shutdown also included mandatory spending that will contradict his policy goals.
The $1.2 trillion package included funding for specific entities—some of which the Trump administration is currently threatening to defund. Other funded entities provide legal defenses for illegal aliens facing deportation, while some hospitals receiving money practice late-term abortions.
“Avoiding a protracted government shutdown of some of the largest agencies like HHS and the Department of War is a laudable goal, but passing bills that undermine the president’s agenda to cut woke and weaponized spending is not the way to do it,” Connor Semelsberger, government relations director at The Heritage Foundation, told The Daily Signal in a statement Thursday.