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\n The Senate has put Congress on path to stave off another prolonged government shutdown<\/a>, approving a major spending deal struck with the White House that only temporarily funds the Department of Homeland Security to allow for long-term negotiations on federal immigration enforcement.\n <\/p>\n \n With the funding deadline passed, Washington has officially entered a partial government shutdown. But Republican and Democratic leaders believe the final measure will reach President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s desk early enough next week to avoid any substantial pain for federal workers. The Senate voted to pass the measure just hours before the funding deadline Friday, but the House is not expected to return to Washington until Monday to give it final approval.\n <\/p>\n \n House passage, however, is not yet guaranteed: Speaker Mike Johnson and his leadership team must navigate a slim GOP margin with some hardliner Republicans rebelling against the two-week funding stopgap for DHS, which Senate Democrats had demanded.\n <\/p>\n \n The Republican leader and his team will likely need help from Democrats to pass the bill, which provides funding for the rest of the departments in the package \u2014 with priorities ranging from the Pentagon to air traffic control to federal health research \u2014 through the end of September.\n <\/p>\n \n Trump and GOP leaders quickly agreed to Democrats\u2019 demand to punt on DHS funding for now, as the party faces an intense public backlash from the two killings of US citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis this month. The White House has been adamant that Republicans should seek to avoid a shutdown after Democrats showed firm resolve last fall, refusing to reopen the government for 43 days over expiring enhanced Obamacare tax credits for millions of Americans.\n <\/p>\n \n Democrats, meanwhile, agreed to a two-week funding punt, rather than shutting down DHS altogether, as they seek real negotiations with Republicans on reforms at a time when even GOP senators are calling for changes.\n <\/p>\n \n The spending package \u2014 which funds three-quarters of government agencies \u2014 would slightly reduce Congress\u2019 spending overall, but mostly rejects Trump\u2019s steepest proposed budget cuts.\n <\/p>\n \n Democrats, and some Republicans, fought to protect federal dollars for programs like NIH and Pell Grants, though the measure still slashes funding for international aid programs, following the White House\u2019s decision to shutter USAID last year. It also funds Trump priorities like a military pay raise and new investments in air safety and FAA hiring.\n <\/p>\n \n In a win for Democrats, the funding bills also include some accountability measures \u2014 dubbed \u201cguardrails \u201c by the party \u2014 that effectively force the White House to follow Congress\u2019 spending instructions. They hope this would end the Trump administration\u2019s practice of moving money between departments without Capitol Hill\u2019s approval. (This time, spending leaders included a detailed funding breakdown in the bill itself \u2014 rather than the nonbinding language that is typically sent to the White House.)\n <\/p>\n \n GOP leaders struggled for much of Thursday and Friday to win full support from their own conference for the measure.\n <\/p>\n \n Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, in particular, had issues with the DHS portion, and tried to force his own party leadership to keep language that would allow senators, such as himself, to sue the Department of Justice for large sums of money because their phone records were seized under the Biden administration without their knowledge. The House in the package voided the controversial law<\/a> after senators had forced into the bill<\/a> that ended November\u2019s historic shutdown.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cYou jammed me, Speaker Johnson. I won\u2019t forget this,\u201d Graham said in a fiery speech on the Senate floor on Friday.\n <\/p>\n \n This headline and story have been updated with additional developments.<\/em>\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n The Senate has put Congress on path to stave off another prolonged government shutdown, approving a major spending deal struck with the White House that only temporarily funds the Department of Homeland Security to allow for long-term negotiations on federal immigration enforcement. 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