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The Senate advanced a massive five-bill appropriations package Friday night.
It funds the Pentagon, Departments of Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Labor, and Education.
It also includes a stopgap measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks.
The Senate funding package comes after the White House struck a deal with Democrats who want serious changes in DHS policy after its agents shot and killed Alex Pratt in Minneapolis.
The funding package now goes back to the House, which returns Monday.
The government will remain partially shut down until the House advances the package and President Trump signs it.
Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.
In a social media post announcing new tariffs, Trump said the U.S.
needs Greenland to protect the island from Russia and China.
But Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee Mark Warner denied this on CBS.
In his effort to take over Greenland, Trump has not taken military seizure off the table.
Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky told NBC the GOP-controlled Congress doesn't back an invasion.
When the Senate returns, Paul and Democratic Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia hope to pass a war powers resolution that would limit Trump's ability to invade Greenland.
Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.
The Justice Department is not investigating the killing of a woman by an ICE agent.
Here's Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch on Fox News.
Blanch did not rule out a federal probe in the future and said an internal review of the killing is ongoing at the Department of Homeland Security.
The Deputy Attorney General then defended the DOJ's active investigation into Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frye.
Fry and Waltz said they will not be intimidated and denied impeding federal law enforcement.
Luke Garrett, NPR News, Washington.