U.S. Budget Bills | Partial Shutdown in effect, House vote TBD

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The Senate voted 71 to 29 to pass the bipartisan spending deal to fund most of the government and keep the Department of Homeland Security running for two weeks while Democrats and President Trump negotiate restrictions on the administration’s immigration crackdown. It still must clear the House before it becomes law.
 
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“… The agreement, the culmination of an intense round of haggling between the White House and Democrats, did not come together in time to avert a brief lapse in federal funding over the weekend, starting on Saturday morning.

… “I’ve never seen a political party take its best issue and turn it into its worst issue in the period of time that it has happened in the last few weeks,” Senator John Kennedy, Republican of Louisiana, told reporters before the vote on the deal on Friday night.

… With the House unable to pass it before Monday, funding for the Homeland Security Department and an array of others, including the Pentagon and health and transportation programs, was on track to lapse after midnight on Friday. The White House budget office directed affected agencies to carry out plans for an orderly shutdown.…”
 
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