The federal government is poised to enter a partial shutdown just after midnight on Friday, a lapse that lawmakers in both parties say is likely to last only through the weekend.The expected shutdown comes even as the Senate was moving Friday evening to pass a bipartisan spending package that would keep most of the government funded through the end of the fiscal year while buying two more weeks to negotiate new limits on the Administrations immigration enforcement tactics. But with the House out of session until Monday, lawmakers acknowledged there was no practical way to send the bill to President Donald Trump before the deadline, making a short shutdown all but unavoidable.The pressure now shifts to the House, where lawmakers will have to decide whether to swiftly ratify the Senate plan or reopen a deeper fight over immigration and other policy priorities. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana has said the chamber could act as soon as it returns from recess on Monday. We may inevitably be in a short shutdown situation, Johnson said Thursday night. But the House is going to do its job.House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Friday that hes supportive of the compromise deal but wants to ensure the negotiations that follow lead to dramatic change at the Department of Homeland Security.The standoff over DHS funding escalated quickly after the fatal shooting last weekend of Alex Pretti, an American citizen, by federal immigration agents in Minneapolisthe second
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