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Senate leaders scramble to save bipartisan deal and avert partial government shutdown at midnight
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KOB.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leaders were scrambling to save a bipartisan spending deal and avert a partial government shutdown at midnight Friday as Democrats have demanded new restrictions on federal immigration raids across the country.
“Republicans and Democrats have come together to get the vast majority of the government funded until September” while extending current funding for Homeland Security, Trump said in a social media post Thursday evening.
“Hopefully people will be of the spirit to try and get this done tomorrow,” Thune said as the Senate was scheduled to reconvene on Friday.
Still far apart on policyIf the deal moves forward, negotiations down the road on a final agreement on the Homeland Security bill are likely to be difficult.
“The package will not come back through the House without funding for the Department of Homeland Security,” they wrote.