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Senate Republicans on Thursday postponed plans to vote on a major immigration enforcement funding package after growing backlash within the GOP over the Trump administration’s controversial $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund. Senate Majority Leader John Thune had hoped to move the reconciliation package through the Senate before lawmakers left Washington for …

Congressional negotiators from both parties released a sprawling bipartisan funding package Tuesday intended to keep the federal government open ahead of a Jan. 30 shutdown deadline, but provisions related to Immigration and Customs Enforcement are already threatening to fracture Democratic support in both chambers. The 1,059-page measure would fully fund …