Democrats reject White House ICE offer as partial shutdown looms – US politics live

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• They say such changes are necessary after two protesters were fatally shot by federal agents in Minneapolis last month. Earlier on Monday, Senate majority leader John Thune had expressed optimism about the rare negotiations between Democrats and the White House, saying there was “forward progress.”Thune said it was a good sign that the two sides were trading papers, and “hopefully they can find some common ground here.” But coming to an agreement on the charged issue of immigration enforcement will be difficult, especially as rank-and-file lawmakers in both parties were skeptical about finding common ground. Many Democrats who are furious about ICE’s aggressive crackdown have said they won’t vote for any more Homeland Security funding until enforcement is radically scaled back.
• “Dramatic changes are needed at the Department of Homeland Security before a DHS funding bill moves forward,” Jeffries said earlier Monday.
• “Period.
• Full stop.”In other developments: Donald Trump threatened to block a new bridge connecting the US and Canada he supported in 2017 and made the bizarre false claim that increased trade between Canada and China would include a total ban on Canadians playing ice hockey.
• The Miami Herald reported that one partially redacted Epstein files document includes an account of a 2006 phone call in which Trump told the Palm Beach police chief that “everyone has known” Jeffrey Epstein was abusing girls and Ghislaine Maxwell ‘“is evil”.