Senate Majority Leader John Thune negotiated for weeks with Democratic senators. In the predawn hours of Friday, after trading offers several times, Thune and Democratic leader Chuck Schumer settled on a deal to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security through September 30. The package would not include funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol. It would have reopened airports, paid 50,000 unpaid federal workers and ended a lengthy government shutdown . By noon,

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