<p>The House of Representatives is currently debating the government spending package that could end the partial government shutdown if approved.</p>
<p>President Donald Trump is expected to sign five appropriations bills along with a continuing resolution to fund the Department of Homeland Security for the next 10 days, as lawmakers negotiate potential restrictions on federal immigration enforcement.</p>
<p>Before the House Rules Committee meeting on Monday to advance the package in the chamber, Trump said on X that he did not want any changes to the Senate package. That package was approved on Friday as part of a deal between the White House and Senate Democrats.</p>
<p>The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis escalated tensions surrounding immigration operations by the Trump administration. Democrats threatened a shutdown if DHS funding was not split from the rest of the spending package in the Senate, even though the House had already approved it before the shooting death on a bipartisan basis.</p>
<p>However, because the House was out of session, most government operations closed starting on Saturday. A handful of Republicans wanted the SAVE Act, a House-approved bill requiring documentary proof of citizenship to vote, tacked onto the package to force a Senate vote.</p>
<p>Claims circulated that Senate leaders had agreed to bring the SAVE Act to a floor vote by scrapping the filibuster in order to win over House GOP holdouts and end the shutdown. But Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) quickly poured cold water on those reports.</p>
<p>“We’ve got some members, as you know, who expressed an interest in that, so we&#8217;re going to have a conversation about it, but there weren’t any commitments made,” Thune said Tuesday, according to <a href="https://x.com/AlexMillerFox1/status/2018707272860336324?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.</p>
<p>The dispute ruffled feathers during a procedural vote, including from Rep. John Rose (R-TN), who accused the Senate leader of “already backtracking on what he reportedly told some House Republicans: that if we reopened the government, he’d keep his word and bring the SAVE Act to the floor.”</p>
<p>“House Republicans MUST hold the line and refuse to fold on something as fundamental as election integrity. The SAVE Act belongs on must-pass legislation,” Rose, who’s running for governor of Tennessee, continued.</p>
<p>The procedural vote narrowly passed 217-215 along party lines, with Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) voting against the legislation and Rose eventually changing his “no” vote to &#8220;yes.&#8221;</p>
<p>Funding DHS through September is shaping up to be a bruising fight, as Republicans demand tougher action against sanctuary cities while Democrats seek serious restrictions on ICE and CBP.</p>
<p>“Next week and the week after will be intense. The two sides are pretty far apart,” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told <a href="https://x.com/JakeSherman/status/2018686738298794143?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Punchbowl News</a> on Tuesday.</p>
<p>“If we&#8217;re going to be discussing all this and ICE operations, and part of that equation is how sanctuary cities have not been participating. In fact, they&#8217;ve been thwarting the efforts of ICE, and I think that has to be part of the discussion,” he further told the outlet.</p>

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