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Senate passes spending deal 71-29, but partial government shutdown begins as House is away
The Senate passed a compromise spending package 71-29 on Friday; DHS gets only two weeks of funding while ICE reforms are negotiated. With the House out until Monday, a partial shutdown began Saturday morning.
Why it matters
The deal, struck Thursday between President Trump and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, funds the Pentagon, the State Department and most federal agencies through Sept. 30 via five spending bills — but keeps the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at current levels for just two weeks while the parties negotiate ICE immigration-enforcement reforms.
The Senate passed it 71-29 on Friday. However, House lawmakers are out of town and not scheduled to return until Monday, so the federal government technically entered a partial shutdown early Saturday. Speaker Mike Johnson said the likeliest path is a fast-track House vote Monday evening, requiring a two-thirds majority and a significant number of Democratic votes.
Full report
Democrats withdrew support for a full-year DHS bill after federal agents fatally shot 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. They want guardrails on ICE: bar agents from wearing masks, require body cameras, ban roving patrols and tighten warrant rules. Schumer warned he would let DHS funding lapse in two weeks if talks fail — a lapse that would also hit the Coast Guard, TSA and FEMA.
OMB Director Russell Vought sent a memo Friday telling agency heads that employees "should report to work for their next regularly scheduled tour of duty to undertake orderly shutdown activities," adding: "It is our hope that this lapse will be short."
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