DHS Funding Negotiations, Russia Attacks Ukraine Power Grid, Nationalizing Elections

The partial government shutdown is over, and now Congress has to do the rest of its job. Lawmakers have nine days to negotiate restraints on immigration enforcement. What are they willing to accept? I'm Steve Inskeep with Michelle Martin, and this is Up First from NPR News. Russia is hitting Ukraine's power grid again after agreeing to stop those attacks while peace talks move forward. Ukraine's president says he's waiting for an American response, so his diplomacy with Moscow making any difference? And president Trump is openly calling for the federal government to take over elections in some states. The Republicans are to nationalize the voting. What does the constitution have to say about that? Stay with us. We'll give you news you need to start your day. This message comes from Adobe. You need to make a huge presentation in an hour. Luckily, Adobe Acrobat Studio uses AI and Adobe Express to take your files and generate a presentation in a few clicks. Need a last minute pitch deck? Do that with Acrobat. Need to level up your presentation design? Do that with Acrobat. Have 30 plus documents that need to be simplified into a proposal? Do that with Acrobat. Learn more at adobe.com slash do that with Acrobat. The partial federal government shutdown has ended. The house voted 217 to 214 on Tuesday to fund most government offices through September. You'll notice Michelle said most. Congress now has just nine days to finish negotiating the budget for the Department of Homeland Security. Lawmakers seem far apart over changes to immigration enforcement. Democrats are demanding changes after federal agents shot and killed two Americans in Minnesota. NPR immigration policy correspondent, Ximena Bustillo, has been tracking all this and is with us now to bring us up today. Good morning, Ximena. Good morning, Michelle. So the immigration and customs enforcement agency, ICE, already got $75,000,000,000 from Congress last summer. So what's the difference between that and what Congress is trying to come up with after February 13? Mhmm. So in this instance, we're talking about funding for all of DHS and not just ICE through the end of the fiscal year. So that 75,000,000,000 that you're talking about was in the one big beautiful bill, and that was just for ICE. It made immigration and customs enforcement the highest funded federal law enforcement agency. Now congress still has to, by law, do what's called annual appropriations and that's the baseline budget for each department that has to get renewed every year or we have these shutdowns. Okay. So this is for the whole department and not just one agency, and so that's why this is a big deal. Okay. So body cameras keep coming up. Democrats want immigration officers to wear body cameras, but DHS secretary Kristi Noem already said this week that every officer on the ground in Minneapolis specifically would be issued a body camera. So what's the issue they still need to negotiate? Right. And keep in …