Senate, DHS and Trump strike government funding
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The agreement includes advancing five spending bills and funding the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks as lawmakers negotiate changes to DHS and ICE.
A partial government shutdown would likely have little impact on immigration enforcement operations, since ICE and CBP got billions in last year's One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
After a second fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen in Minneapolis, Democrats say public opinion is on their side and they are willing to risk a backlash to counter what they see as police-state tactics.
The Senate is rumbling toward a likely successful vote on a package of three funding bills, but it’s what comes next that some lawmakers are worried about. The upper chamber is expected to pass a three-bill funding package, known as a minibus, later this ...
The hourlong debate came in wake of two deadly shootings involving federal immigration agents in Minneapolis this month.
U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett and state Rep. James Talarico both pitched themselves as fighters Saturday during their first, and perhaps only, debate in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, with Crockett framing herself as a “street fighter” and Talarico leaning into his record battling GOP proposals in the Texas House.
Alexander Vindman — who provided critical evidence in the first impeachment of President Donald Trump — is seeking the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Florida.