President Donald Trump invited a group of Senate Democrats to the White House to meet with him as another government shutdown loomed, but their invitation was rejected.
Democrats have been demanding that Republicans strip the money for the Department of Homeland Security from the funding package after ICE agents shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday.
The Senate needs to pass a so-called minibus package to fund the government before midnight on January 30, or the U.S. will face a partial government shutdown.
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