Key Highlights
- Senate Republicans and Democrats shattered through partisan rancor and sent a retooled government spending package to the House on Friday evening after President Donald Trump struck a deal to sate Democrats’ demands.
- Though lawmakers were able to advance the revamped five-bill package, without the controversial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill and a two-week funding extension to keep the agency afloat, a partial government shutdown is all but guaranteed.
- That’s because modifications to the package, and the inclusion of a short-term continuing resolution (CR) for DHS, must be approved by the House.
- And lawmakers in the lower chamber aren’t set to return to Washington, D. C., until early next week.
- GRAHAM THREATENS SHUTDOWN DEAL OVER HOUSE-BACKED REPEAL, WARNS JOHNSON: 'I WON'T FORGET THIS' Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S. D., and Senate Republicans advanced a Trump-backed funding deal out of the Senate on Friday with the help of Senate Democrats.
