Senate blocks massive funding bill, with critical talks underway to avoid government shutdown

Bipartisan senators blocked a massive spending bill Thursday, as eleventh-hour talks continue to avoid a costly partial government shutdown that looms at the week's end. All Democrats, who are pushing to force changes to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement policies in the wake of Alex Pretti's fatal encounter with federal agents in Minneapolis, voted not [...] The post Senate blocks massive funding bill, with critical talks underway to avoid government shutdown appeared first on Kahawatungu.