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The Senate voted Friday to fund most of the government through the end of September after President Donald Trump made a deal with Democrats to carve out Homeland Security funding and allow Congress to debate new restrictions on federal immigration raids across the country.<\/p>\n
With a weekend shutdown looming, Trump made the rare deal with Senate Democrats on Thursday in the wake of the\u00a0deaths of two protesters\u00a0at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis. Under the agreement, the Homeland Security money will continue at current levels for two weeks while lawmakers consider Democratic demands to unmask agents, require more warrants and allow local authorities to help investigate any incidents.<\/p>\n
The bill passed in a 71-29 vote. It will now head to the House, which is not due back until Monday. That means the government could be in a partial shutdown temporarily over the weekend until they pass it.<\/p>\n
As lawmakers in both parties called for investigations into the fatal shootings by federal agents, Trump said he didn\u2019t want a shutdown and encouraged members of both parties to cast a \u201cmuch needed Bipartisan \u2018YES\u2019 vote.\u201d<\/p>\n
The president\u2019s concessions to Democrats prompted pushback from some Senate Republicans, delaying the final votes and providing a preview of the coming debate over the next two weeks. In a fiery floor speech, Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina warned that Republicans should not give away too much.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo the Republican party, where have you been?\u201d Graham said, adding that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Border Patrol agents have been \u201cslandered and smeared.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, some Republicans said they believe that changes to ICE\u2019s operations were necessary, even as they were unlikely to agree to all of the Democrats\u2019 requests.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the last couple of days have been an improvement,\u201d said Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. \u201cI think the rhetoric has been dialed down a little bit, in Minnesota.\u201d<\/p>\n
Irate Democrats\u00a0say that they won\u2019t vote again to fund the Department of Homeland Security until Congress puts new curbs on ICE and other federal agencies conducting the raids.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are not radical demands,\u201d said Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer. \u201cThey\u2019re basic standards the American people already expect from law enforcement.\u201d<\/p>\n
Democrats have asked the White House to \u201cend roving patrols\u201d in cities and coordinate with local law enforcement on immigration arrests, including requiring tighter rules for warrants.<\/p>\n
They also want an enforceable code of conduct so agents are held accountable when they violate rules. Schumer said agents should be required to have \u201cmasks off, body cameras on\u201d and carry proper identification, as is common practice in most law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n
Alex Pretti, a 37 year-old ICU nurse, was killed by a border patrol agent on Jan. 24, two weeks after protester\u00a0Renee Good\u00a0was killed by an ICE officer. Administration officials, including Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, originally\u00a0said that Pretti had aggressively approached officers, but\u00a0multiple videos\u00a0contradicted that claim.<\/p>\n
Republicans countered with their own demands, including restrictions on so-called \u201csanctuary cities\u201d that they say do not do enough to enforce illegal immigration.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere no way in hell we\u2019re going to let Democrats knee cap law enforcement and stop deportations in exchange for funding DHS,\u201d said Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., ahead of the vote.<\/p>\n
Graham held the spending bills up until Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., agreed to give him a vote on his sanctuary cities bill at a later date.<\/p>\n
Separately, Graham was also protesting a repeal of a new law giving senators the ability to sue the government for millions of dollars if their personal or office data is accessed without their knowledge \u2014 as happened to him and other senators as part of the so-called Arctic Frost investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by Trump supporters at the Capitol.<\/p>\n
The spending bill, which was passed by the House last week, would repeal that law. But Graham said that Thune had agreed to consider a separate bill that would allow \u201cgroups and private citizens\u201d who were caught up in Jack Smith\u2019s probe to sue.<\/p>\n
The unusual bipartisan talks between Trump and Schumer, his frequent adversary, came after Pretti\u2019s death. Schumer called it \u201ca moment of truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
The standoff threatened to plunge the country into another shutdown, just two months after Democrats blocked a spending bill over expiring federal health care subsidies. That dispute closed the government for 43 days as Republicans refused to negotiate.<\/p>\n
That shutdown ended when a small group of moderate Democrats broke away to strike a deal with Republicans. But Democrats are more unified this time after the fatal shootings of\u00a0Pretti\u00a0and\u00a0Renee Good\u00a0by\u00a0federal agents.<\/p>\n
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has said he was opposed to breaking up the funding package, but \u201cif it is broken up, we will have to move it as quickly as possible. We can\u2019t have the government shut down.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johnson said he might have some \u201ctough decisions\u201d to make about when to bring the House back to Washington to approve the bills separated by the Senate.<\/p>\n
House Republicans have said they do not want any changes to their bill.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe package will not come back through the House without funding for the Department of Homeland Security,\u201d members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus wrote Trump.<\/p>\n
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries told reporters that any change in the homeland bill needs to be \u201cmeaningful and it needs to be transformative.\u201d<\/p>\n
Absent \u201cdramatic change,\u201d Jeffries said, \u201cRepublicans will get another shutdown.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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