US President Donald Trump urged the House of Representatives on Monday to end the partial government shutdown, but neither Republican nor Democrat lawmakers appeared ready to quickly approve the federal funding package he brokered with the Senate without first debating their own demands over immigration enforcement operations.
Democrats are refusing to provide the votes House Speaker Mike Johnson needs to push the package forward as they try to rein in the Trump administration’s deportation operations, after a second US citizen was fatally shot by immigration agents in Minneapolis.
