Appropriations measure to let Democrats negotiate with White House and GOP leaders over Trump’s deportation efforts
The US House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a funding measure that will end the partial government shutdown, while giving Democrats time to negotiate with the White House and Congress’s Republican leaders over restrictions on Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
The Republican-controlled chamber approved the $1.2tn appropriations measure by a 217-214 vote, with all but 21 Republicans voting in favor and all but 21 Democrats against. Trump is expected to sign it, ending the shutdown that began after midnight last Friday, which halted many operations at departments including defense, health and human services, labor and transportation.
The funding lapse occurred after Democrats refused to approve continued funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) following the killings by federal agents of US citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis amid the Trump administration’s surge of immigration enforcement in the city.
Democrats have demanded a host of guardrails be imposed on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other agencies involved in Trump’s mass deportation campaign. Among their conditions is the requirement that federal agents wear body cameras and cease wearing masks, follow a code of conduct and obtain arrest warrants for people in the country illegally.
