Sam Greenglass

Bills to pay for large swaths of the government have passed with overwhelming bipartisan support so far.

The lone exception, money for the Department of Homeland Security, which houses ICE.

All but seven Democrats withheld their votes to push back on President Trump's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, where an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Macklin Goode.

The DHS funding measure also has money for the Coast Guard, FEMA, and TSA.

In the Senate next week, the remaining funding measures are expected to be voted on as a package, making it impossible for Democrats to oppose DHS funding and support money for health, transportation, and defense.

Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.

President Trump created uncertainty about the direction of the bipartisan talks in Congress when he unveiled his own health care blueprint that would not resurrect the subsidies.

But even before that, the bipartisan talks had been stalling.

lawmakers struggled to address the desire of some Republicans to insert more stringent language on abortion.

That topic has always been tenuous in the talks, but as recently as last week, the bipartisan negotiators were signaling confidence that a compromise was within reach.

Now that has faded.

Negotiators say they still hope they can salvage the effort.

Thursday was the last day of open enrollment for marketplace plans in most states.

Sam Greenglass, NPR News, Washington.

OK, so to end the shutdown, what Congress did is they passed three spending packages and they need to do 12.

The rest were just basically extended at current funding levels until this other deadline, which is coming up on January 30th.

And now at this point, Congress has passed half of those appropriations packages and two more of them are really close.

But the four that are left are really tricky, including Health and Human Services, Defense and Homeland Security.

Okay, so these buckets that are still on the to-do list, they actually make up a majority of discretionary spending.

So the stakes are really high.