The federal government will partially shut down Saturday at 12:01 a.m., though the latest shutdown is expected to be short-lived.
U.S. Senate Democrats reached an agreement with Republicans and the Trump Administration on Thursday to delay spending increases for the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks. U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo. 5th District, told Missourinet what his U.S. Senate colleagues will be doing during those two weeks.
“(They will) be leaving out the whole issue of the funding for Homeland Security, and in particular ICE, until something can be done to correct the direction that agency is moving (in),” Cleaver said. “The ICE agents who are all around the country right now are in many instances not well trained, and certainly they have very little knowledge about, nor experience in, trying to de-escalate, which is critically important.”
The U.S. Senate agreement reached will keep the current spending levels for the Department of Homeland Security in place during the two-week period, while spending increases for other federal agencies would move forward.
The vote to approve the stopgap funding measure won’t happen until Monday at the earliest because the U.S. House is in recess and many of its members, including Cleaver, are back in their home states.
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