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Trump signs funding bill, setting up immigration enforcement debate

Schumer agreed with Trump to replace full-year Homeland Security funding with a two-week stopgap and said Democrats would present reform proposals.

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President Donald Trump signed a funding package that ended a partial government shutdown and temporarily funded the Department of Homeland Security. The two-week stopgap sets up negotiations over changes to immigration enforcement.

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Chuck Schumer D · NY · SEN

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Chuck Schumer
D · NY · SEN

Senate Minority Leader who reached the stopgap funding agreement with Trump and described Democrats' next steps

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Mike Johnson
R · LA-4

House Speaker and leading Republican voice on the upcoming immigration-enforcement negotiations

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Donald Trump
R · President of the United States

President who signed the funding package and agreed to a temporary Homeland Security funding measure

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Patty Murray
D · WA · SEN

Senate Appropriations Committee ranking member who said Senate Democrats were ready to work

Tom Cole
R · OK-4

House Appropriations Committee chair who argued that funding the government is Congress's basic duty

John Thune
R · SD · SEN

Senate Majority Leader who said Katie Britt would lead Republicans' negotiations

Lisa Murkowski
R · AK · SEN

Senator who said negotiators had a range of reform proposals to consider

Katie Boyd Britt
R · AL · SEN

Senator selected to lead Republicans' Senate negotiations

House Appropriations Committee ranking member who advocated immigration-enforcement changes during floor debate

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Congress Passes Funding Deal to End Partial Shutdown

Schumer and Trump worked together on a short-term federal funding deal that averted a funding lapse. Negotiations over immigration enforcement and Department of Homeland Security funding remain ahead. Center outlets frame the episode as cooperation between Schumer and Trump before further immigration-enforcement and DHS funding talks.

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