Government shutdown nears amid Senate standoff over ICE funding

The federal government Wednesday inched closer to a shutdown as the Senate remained deadlocked over a spending bill that would fund Immigration Customs and Enforcement amid the agency’s deadly clashes with protesters in Minneapolis.

Large swaths of the federal government will shut down Saturday morning unless President Trump and Republicans can engineer a breakthrough with Democrats who vow to block a sprawling spending package that includes money for the Department of Homeland Security and ICE.