Shutdown to Begin at Midnight After Senate Caves to Democrat Demands on ICE Funding

The majority of the federal government will shut down at midnight after the Senate insisted on amending a House-passed spending bil painstakingly negotiated over months with Democrats.

The spending bill, which passed the Senate on a 71-29 vote, funds around two-thirds of the federal government, including the U.S. Departments of War, Treasury, State, Health and Human Services, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and Education.

Yet by amending the bill the House sent to the Senate to remove a long-term bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, the House must return to Washington to attempt to pass the Senate-amended version – far from a sure thing.

With the House out of town, the agencies left unfunded by Congress will shut down after midnight, although