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Government shutdown all but guaranteed as House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., says earliest action on Senate-passed spending bill is Monday, with two-thirds majority potentially needed.
The government will shut down this weekend, but the House is expected to reopen it quickly next week.
A two-week stopgap Homeland Security measure is intended to buy time for bipartisan negotiations on immigration enforcement tactics.
Senate Democrats plan to block the Department of Homeland Security funding bill, and some Senate Republicans contend that the bill may need to be sidelined to avoid a shutdown.
The Senate has voted to approve a spending package that could avert a government shutdown. As part of the deal, senators stripped out new Homeland Security funding so Democrats and the White House could continue negotiation on potential changes to ICE and Border Patrol.