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▪ Dems accuse ICE of regularly arresting citizens

▪ Court allows Portland National Guard deployment

▪ Universities reject Trump’s funding offer

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The ongoing government shutdown is now tied for the second-longest in U.S. history, reaching its 21st day, still with no end in sight.

It tied the shutdown of December 1995-January 1996 during the Clinton administration and will surpass it for the second-longest on Wednesday. It’s only eclipsed by the record-long shutdown during President Trump’s first term, which lasted 35 days.

With no major negotiations happening between Republicans and Democrats, how this current shutdown will end seems unclear. Both sides appear committed to their demands.

But this has also been the case in previous shutdowns until a deal was reached, restoring full government services.

Here’s how the three other shutdowns that lasted longer than a week came to an end:

1995-1996

A standoff between former President Clinton and congressional Republicans, led by then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), began when Clinton vetoed a spending bill that would have issued a range of budget cuts to social programs and Medicare and tax cuts for the wealthy.

The government had shut down for just less than a week in November 1995 before a temporary funding agreement reopened services to give lawmakers a few more weeks to negotiate. But both sides remained adamant, causing a second shutdown on Dec. 16 of that year.

What followed was the longest shutdown in U.S. history up to that point; none before it had gone on longer than a week.

Public opinion ultimately weighed heavily in ending the shutdown, as polls showed most of the public blamed Republicans for shutting down the government. The GOP caved and accepted Clinton’s budget proposal.

2013

Like the current shutdown, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) played a key role in the 2013 shutdown in the first year of former President Obama’s second term.

Congressional Republicans were insistent on a continuing resolution (CR) that included rollbacks of key parts of the ACA. One of the provisions that the GOP included in its bill also would have delayed implementation of ObamaCare by one year.

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R), then a first-term senator, was a key driver of the Republican push to strip funding from Obama’s signature accomplishment, raising his profile within the party.

But polling showed the public blamed Republicans more for shutting down the government, and the GOP wasn’t unified behind this strategy, as some including then-Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) stepped in to negotiate a deal.

Congress ultimately passed a CR without major changes to the ACA, which Obama signed.

2018-2019

The most recent major shutdown centered on Trump’s insistence on Congress providing billions in funding to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, a key campaign promise.

Democrats were uniformly opposed to a House-passed bill that included the funding, setting the stage for a standoff that lasted a record 35 days. The shutdown was also unique in that it started during a lame-duck Congress in December 2018, with Democrats set to take control of the House after the new year.

Polls showed most Americans didn’t view Trump’s holdup for border wall funding as worth the shutdown and blamed the White House and GOP. After Democrats took control of the House, Trump showed openness to a measure to reopen the government.

He later declared a national emergency to direct funding to a border wall without needing congressional authorization.

In each of these shutdowns, the public’s view was key in causing one side, each time Republicans, to blink and end the shutdown. But polls so far have been a bit less definitive as to whom the public is blaming for this shutdown, possibly giving both sides confidence that they can win the battle.

▪ CNBC: White House economic adviser says shutdown could end this week.

▪ The Washington Post: “How is this shutdown different from other shutdowns?”

FIRST IN THE HILL: Reps. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) accused U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents of routinely arresting U.S. citizens, demanding stats on the number of those detained.

A letter dated Monday outlines a number of recent arrests of U.S. citizens taken into custody by ICE, faulting the agency for aggressive tactics and a failure to swiftly review immigration status. ProPublica recently found at least 170 cases of such arrests, with some U.S. citizens held for more than 24 hours.

“DHS and ICE continue to wrongfully detain U.S. citizens—sometimes with violent force—while failing to investigate these cases with the urgency and care required,” the two wrote, adding that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was in “clear violation” of its own policy.

The letter comes amid rising tensions in Chicago, the latest city where Trump has surged immigration enforcement, sparking widespread protests that have led to notable arrests beyond ICE — including of pastors.

DHS largely rebuffed the lawmakers when pressed on the topic earlier this year, prompting cries........

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