Trump seeks to avoid shutdown, as Democrats block funding, demand ICE curbs

Democrats and the White House are narrowing in on a spending deal that could avert a partial government shutdown as they negotiate new restrictions for US President Donald Trump’s surge of immigration enforcement.
As the country reels from the deaths of two protesters at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis, the two sides had tentatively agreed to separate homeland security funding from the rest of the legislation and fund it for two weeks while they debate Democratic demands for curbs on…  

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