Trump's Shutdown Deal Looms as AFCON Final & Mideast Hope Emerge

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Government Shutdown Looms as Trump and Senate Democrats Reach Deal; Troop Deployments Cost Nearly $500 Million

Washington, D.C. - A looming government shutdown threatened to partially close the federal government as President Donald Trump and Senate Democrats reached an agreement Thursday evening to avert the crisis, according to Time. However, the deal's passage in both the Senate and the House remained uncertain.

With federal funding set to lapse at midnight Friday, a partial shutdown appeared likely. The most recent government shutdown, from Oct. 1 to Nov. 12, was the longest in U.S. history, leaving hundreds of thousands of federal workers furloughed and disrupting flights across the country, Time reported. States also faced threats to food aid during that period. The current debate revolves around immigration enforcement, amid high-profile incidents involving federal agents across the country, including two recent killings of U.S. citizens in Minneapolis.

Meanwhile, a report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that President Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to multiple U.S. cities this past year cost taxpayers nearly $500 million, Time reported. Since June, the Trump Administration deployed federal troops to six U.S. cities: Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Memphis, Portland, Chicago, and New Orleans. The deployments, which the President argued were needed to crack down on crime, faced legal backlash and sparked outrage from local and state leaders, as well as residents. The CBO report, released on Wednesday, estimated the cost of deployments to Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Memphis, Portland, and Chicago through December.