The mini shutdown is over, for now. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed a spending bill to end a brief, partial government shutdown and fund the federal government through the rest of this fiscal year—with one crucial exception.
Funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is set to lapse at the end of next week after lawmakers stripped the DHS appropriations out from the broader funding package. That maneuver creates a brief opportunity for lawmakers to negotiate reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol tactics in response to public outcry over the Trump administration's heavy-handed, bloody crackdown in Minnesota and elsewhere.
