Shutdown Looms as Senate Works on Funding Deal

The Senate will aim to vote today on an agreement to fund most of the federal government and buy more time to debate new accountability measures for immigration agents, but many agencies will still shutter this weekend.

Even if the agreement passes the Senate, the House will not consider the spending legislation until early next week, though the effects are expected to be relatively limited compared with the extended shutdown last fall.

Senate Democrats said Thursday that Republicans had agreed to their demand to break off funding for the Department of Homeland Security from a larger spending bill after federal immigration authorities killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. The agreement would fund DHS at existing levels for two more weeks to give the two parties time to try to hash out a deal to impose new restrictions on immigration enforcement that Democrats are seeking.

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