Senate, White House Face Tight Deadline
High-stakes negotiations over homeland security funding are starting now that President Donald Trump has signed a roughly $1.2 trillion bill yesterday that ends the partial government shutdown while punting on the package’s most contentious agencies.
The White House Office of Management and Budget directed agencies to prepare to reopen today after the House cleared legislation ending a brief funding lapse.
Lawmakers gave themselves until next Friday to craft a new funding bill covering immigration enforcement and other homeland security matters that would carry new guardrails on ICE after deadly shootings by officers in Minneapolis. ...