There is going to be a partial shutdown of the government at least into next week and probably longer. The House won’t be back in session until Monday, and even if the Senate votes on the five funding bills in the legislation before then, the 12 a.m. Saturday deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown will be missed.
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The sixth funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security would be a temporary fix, funding DHS for another two weeks to give Congress time to come up with a compromise on ICE reforms.
A Trump-brokered deal with Democrats to fund five of the six departments was supposed to be voted on Thursday. Instead, it’s hanging by a thread because Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) objected
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