US government shutdown looms as Republicans struggle to pitch bill

Congress grapples with yet another round of brinkmanship over keeping the government open, with Daca remaining a point of division

Capitol Hill edged closer to a potential shutdown on Wednesday, as Republicans struggled to come up with a bill to keep the government open past a funding deadline on Friday.

Democrats have long insisted that they will not support any legislation to further fund the government unless protections are added for the “Dreamers”, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children. An Obama-era program that protected them from deportation was cancelled by the Trump administration last year, and is set to expire on 5 March.

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