House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, at right, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer hold a press conference on Department of Homeland Security funding.
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Congress has less than five days for a bipartisan deal to avert yet another partial shutdown — and questions abound on what that would look like.
Funding will lapse for the Department of Homeland Security Friday night unless Congressional Republicans, President Donald Trump and at least some Senate Democrats can find agreement on immigration enforcement. Or perhaps a plan to fund everything in the agency except ICE.
Lawmakers return today after leaving town miles apart after Democrats laid out their longer list of demands, and Republicans quickly rebuffed them.
One big question now facing lawmakers: what if they need more ...