Lawmakers and the White House offered no signs of compromise over the holiday weekend in their battle over oversight of federal immigration officers that has led to a pause in funding for the Department of Homeland Security. A partial government shutdown began Saturday after congressional Democrats and President Donald Trump’s team failed to reach a deal on legislation to fund the department through September.
Democrats are demanding changes to how immigration operations are conducted after the fatal shootings of U.S. citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal officers in Minneapolis last month.
Unlike the record 43-day shutdown last fall, the closures are narrowly confined, affecting only agencies under the DHS umbrella, including the Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. But the work of ICE and CBP will mostly continue unabated, thanks to billions in funding from Trump’s 2025 tax and spending cut law.
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Iran temporarily closed the Strait of Hormuz as it held latest round of indirect talks with US: It was the first time Iran has announced the closure of the key international waterway, through which 20% of the world’s oil passes, since the U.S. began threatening Iran and rushing military assets to the region. Iran made the rare show of force Tuesday, citing live fire military drills as cause for the closure, as the former’s negotiators held another round of indirect talks with the United States in Geneva over its disputed nuclear program.US military strikes another alleged drug boat, killing 3 people: The U.S. military said Friday that it has carried out another strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the Caribbean Sea, posting a video on social media that shows a boat moving through the water before exploding in flames. The attack raises the death toll from the Trump administration’s strikes on alleged drug boats to 133 people.Trump says Board of Peace will unveil $5 billion in Gaza reconstruction pledges at inaugural meeting: The president, who made the announcement Sunday, did not detail which member nations were making the pledges for reconstruction or which would contribute thousands of personnel to international stabilization and police forces for the territory. The board will gather in Washington for its first meeting on Thursday.