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The shutdown is over — for now. The House approved and the president signed the Senate’s spending package this afternoon, buying lawmakers exactly 10 days to strike a deal on reforms to immigration enforcement. John Thune says that’s “an impossibility.”
- Chuck Schumer wants tighter warrant requirements, an end to roving patrols and a prohibition against federal agents wearing masks — and he says those reforms have to come through Congress because nobody can trust Donald Trump or Kristi Noem to do it themselves.
- Mike Johnson has already rejected two of Schumer’s three demands — and he says sanctuary cities “must be a part of” any discussions.
Jeanine Pirro walked back her threat to arrest anyone with a gun in D.C. after blowback from Republicans and other Second Amendment aficionados.