00:00But I'm thrilled to sign the Consolidated Appropriations Act.
00:05U.S. President Donald Trump signed a spending deal into law on Tuesday, ending a partial
00:10government shutdown that went into effect on Saturday.
00:14The deal gives lawmakers time to negotiate potential limits on Trump's immigration crackdown,
00:20while restoring lapsed funding for defense, health care, and other agencies.
00:24And it continues funding for the Department of Homeland Security until later in the year.
00:29Trump negotiated the spending deal with Senate Democrats, who are demanding new restraints
00:34on his aggressive immigration enforcement tactics, following the killing of two U.S. citizens
00:38by federal agents in Minneapolis last month.
00:41The deal passed the Senate by a wide bipartisan margin last week, and on Tuesday, it narrowly
00:47passed the House of Representatives.
00:49On this vote, the yeas are 217 and the yeas are 214.
00:52Here's Democrat Steny Hoyer from the House floor.
00:55Minneapolis has shocked the conscience of America.
01:00The Congress needs to rein in the Department of Homeland Security.
01:05Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said states led by Democratic leaders need to work
01:10more with federal law enforcement.
01:12We make the plea and the demand that the governors and the mayors in these blue states and blue
01:17cities participate with federal law enforcement so that we have a safer environment in which
01:22to implement and to enforce federal immigration laws.
01:26But Elaine Kamark, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said Republican support for ICE
01:31could backfire during November's midterm elections.
01:35Who knows if it'll be a live issue in October or November?
01:38If they pull back, pull back ICE and pull back this sort of radical deportation plan, by the time
01:47we get to October or November, it may not be an issue anymore.
01:51And I think that that's what they're realizing.
01:53The Trump administration said it was already deploying body cameras on immigration agents
01:58in Minnesota, which is one of the Democrats' demands.
02:01But other Democratic proposals will face more resistance as negotiations between the two parties
02:06continue.
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