Leila Falded

Senators cut a deal to fund most government agencies.

I'm Leila Fadil with Stephen Skeap and this is Up First from NPR News.

The president's border czar, Tom Homan, suggested some immigration agents could leave Minnesota.

Trump didn't seem to know about it when asked if agents are pulling back.

So what is the plan for Minneapolis?

The hope is that it won't last long because senators did reach a deal.

Democrats declined to approve funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

They've now agreed with President Trump on a two-week extension to allow time to negotiate reforms after federal agents killed two Americans.

They'll make an effort to fund other agencies as well.

Homan said that as he arrived to oversee the government's military-style presence in Minneapolis.

He acknowledged some problems with an operation that led to chaos and where federal agents shot and killed two Americans.

It was a hub of baseless fraud claims from the 2020 election.

At one point after his election defeat Trump called a Georgia official

and was heard on tape asking him to find exactly enough extra votes for Trump to win.

Nationwide, thousands of election officials from both parties certified Trump's defeat in 2020.

His own allies conducted an extended audit in Arizona and admitted finding no evidence to change the results.

And I'm Leila Falded.

President Trump has a vision for the American workforce.

He says he wants to make America skilled again.

But women in the skilled trades worry that his attack on DEI will undo decades of progress.