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S.D., believed that the top two congressional Democrats were "afraid of their shadows" as DHS funding negotiations gear up.
President Trump signed a House-approved funding bill on Tuesday to officially end the four-day partial government shutdown that began over the weekend. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion has the latest.
The four-day partial government shutdown is now over. In short succession Tuesday, lawmakers passed and Trump signed a funding package to fully reopen the federal government. But the policy fight over Trump’s immigration crackdown in U.
Congress is staring at a steep climb to finalizing a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as progressives and conservatives each try to throw their weight after the shootings by federal agents in Minneapolis.
Negotiations over government funding are devolving into taunts and partisan posturing as Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and his Democratic counterpart in the House, Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY),
Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss Democrats’ demands for reforms to the Department of Homeland Security amid the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown.
Congress approved a spending package Tuesday afternoon that secures funding for the vast majority of federal agencies through September, ending the second government shutdown in the span of four months.
Senate Republicans fear that the Trump-Schumer funding deal, which included a two-week extension to DHS funding, won't allow enough time to prevent the agency from shutting down in the coming days.