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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Senate voted Friday to fund most of the government through the end of September after President Donald Trump made a deal with Democrats to carve out Homeland Security funding and allow Congress to debate new restrictions on federal immigration raids across the country.<\/p>\n
With a weekend shutdown looming, Trump made the rare deal with Senate Democrats on Thursday in the wake of the\u00a0deaths of two protesters\u00a0at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis. Under the agreement, the Homeland Security money will continue at current levels for two weeks while lawmakers consider Democratic demands to unmask agents, require more warrants and allow local authorities to help investigate any incidents.<\/p>\n
The bill passed in a 71-29 vote. It will now head to the House, which is not due back until Monday. That means the government could be in a partial shutdown temporarily over the weekend until they pass it.<\/p>\n
As lawmakers in both parties called for investigations into the fatal shootings by federal agents, Trump said he didn\u2019t want a shutdown and encouraged members of both parties to cast a \u201cmuch needed Bipartisan \u2018YES\u2019 vote.\u201d<\/p>\n
The president’s concessions to Democrats prompted pushback from some Senate Republicans, delaying the final votes and providing a preview of the coming debate over the next two weeks. In a fiery floor speech, Trump ally Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina warned that Republicans should not give away too much.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo the Republican party, where have you been?\u201d Graham said, adding that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and Border Patrol agents have been \u201cslandered and smeared.”<\/p>\n
Still, some Republicans said they believe that changes to ICE\u2019s operations were necessary, even as they were unlikely to agree to all of the Democrats\u2019 requests.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the last couple of days have been an improvement,\u201d said Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. \u201cI think the rhetoric has been dialed down a little bit, in Minnesota.\u201d<\/p>\n
Florida Bill of Governors advance plan to ban faculty H-1B hiring for one year<\/p>\n
The Florida Board of Governors moved one step closer Thursday to a year-long ban on state colleges and universities hiring faculty members who are in the United States on H-1B visas.<\/p>\n
Those visas allow for the hire of educated foreign professionals for \u201cspecialty\u201d occupations that are harder to fill with U.S. workers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe goal here is not to preclude the ability to hire people that are needed in certain areas. Certainly, there are physician shortages and there\u2019s needs, particularly in high acuity specialities in healthcare and medicine. And certainly there\u2019s issues in certain STEM areas like engineering. So it\u2019s understood. And the goal here is to collect information, focus and get the information we need to then make reasonable policy decisions about the use of this program. There are other visa programs, we\u2019re not stopping the use of those. It\u2019s just this one program where we need to gather more information,\u201d Florida Board of Governors Chair Alan Levine said.<\/p>\n
Last October, Gov. Ron DeSantis said he wanted to pull the plug on the use of those visas in the higher education system, arguing that they took opportunities from Floridians.<\/p>\n
Some members of the board of governors did voice concern about what a pause would do to university staffing …<\/p>\n
\u201cTop tier candidates are not going to pause their careers to wait on a single state. When Florida removes itself from consideration for an entire hiring cycle, those candidates accept offers elsewhere and do not return,\u201d Florida Board of Governors Member Carson Dale said.<\/p>\n
The proposed changes to hiring rules will now be posted on the board of governors\u2019 website for two weeks for public comment. They could be brought back before the board at a future meeting for final approval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A government funding bill heads to the House, and the Florida Board of Governors is considering a push…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2198,28,30,29,2200,2204,115,139,2206,2199,2201,4368,275,135,2032,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-139483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-app-political-connections","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-instagram-bn9","13":"tag-instagram-n13","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-orlando","16":"tag-political-connections","17":"tag-political-connections-full-episode-ctv","18":"tag-political-connections-in-line-video-player","19":"tag-saundra-weathers","20":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","21":"tag-tampa","22":"tag-trending-topics","23":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}