Senate Republicans and Democrats will head into separate lunches Wednesday for their first in-person conference meetings on how to avoid a partial shutdown at the end of the week.
No one wants to see the vast majority of federal agency funding lapse at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. But partisan divisions over the Homeland Security bill are reaching the brink amid a weather-shortened week.
Senators have a few days to turn the tide.
— Democratic demands: Democrats expect to come out of lunch with a firmer wish list of policy changes they want incorporated into the Homeland bill.
“The things that we care most about are getting an independent investigation…
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