Axios - Lawmakers are leaving Washington today without a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security — all but ensuring a partial government shutdown starting tomorrow night, Axios' Stephen Neukam reports.
- That would mark the third shutdown of President Trump's second term, with Democrats again seizing on government funding as one of their only ways to confront the White House over its immigration crackdown.
Despite two weeks of negotiating, Democrats said today that they were no closer to a deal with Republicans to avert a shutdown.
- Among Democrats' demands: ICE agents should be barred from wearing masks, and must wear body cameras.
Senate Democrats rejected multiple attempts from GOP leaders today to fund DHS — ICE's parent agency — in the short term.
- Republicans included $75 billion for ICE in last year's massive reconciliation package, meaning the agency will still have funding despite the shutdown More
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