Sam Greenglass

allowing lawmakers to negotiate guardrails to rein in immigration enforcement tactics.

With the House not back until Monday, funding will lapse at least over the weekend, but will not be as widespread as the last record-long shutdown when all government funding had expired.

Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.

Congress had been on track to avert a shutdown, but after a second deadly shooting of a U.S.

citizen by immigration officers in Minneapolis, Democrats pledged to oppose the Department of Homeland Security funding bill.

That money, though, was tied with more than a trillion dollars for other departments, including defense, health and human services, and housing.

Republicans agreed to isolate DHS funding from the rest and only extend it for two weeks.

allowing lawmakers to negotiate guardrails to rein in immigration enforcement tactics.

With the House not back until Monday, funding will lapse at least over the weekend, but will not be as widespread as the last record-long shutdown when all government funding had expired.

Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.

I would rather be snowshoeing with my best friend right now, but we might need snowshoes still in D.C.

if they can sink into the ice.

I'm Sam Greenglass.

I cover Congress.

So the short answer is that this debate hinges on the tactics of federal immigration officers.

What we're talking about now is about $1.3 trillion in spending that's on the line.

That covers not all of the government, but a lot of it.

And this was all on track to pass by tonight.

But then a federal immigration officer killed a second Minneapolis resident, 37-year-old Alex Preddy.

Democrats saw this as kind of their only chance to extract some changes to rein in immigration tactics.