Nancy Goodman

New — Lindsey Graham is about to speak on the Senate floor to lay out his demands to allow the funding deal to pass today. Graham is no longer pushing for the Arctic Frost payouts provision, but he wants votes on: —Expanding # of people who can sue Jack Smith —Barring future probes from obtaining lawmakers’ metadata (w/ exceptions) —Sanctuary city crackdown

Shutdown. Where are we? 12:01 a Sat.: Shutdown begins for DHS, DOD, HHS, Labor, Ed, DOT, HUD and others. There is a deal for funding all those agencies. The deal: WH, Sen. Ds, Sen. R leaders agreed to pass all non-DHS funding for rest of the year and pass two weeks of funding for DHS.

House GOP conference call pushed to this afternoon at 430. House Rules is likely to meet Sunday to prepare the Senate package for floor consideration

From colleague Liz Elkind. House Rules Cmte to meet at 4 pm et on Sunday on revised spending package

GOP SD Sen Rounds on Fox: We’re going to have a shutdown. I think that's pretty clear. And the reason is just the logistics of working our way to get the House back in time. I think the president has made the right move by by saying look I I want to keep government open and if you really don't like that sixth bill on on Homeland Security fine we'll give you two week time period in which you can make recommendations. But I think the the Democrats are gonna come back with basically the same product that we've got right now. I mean it's got body cameras in it..it's got additional money in it for additional training for ICE agents and so forth

Majority Whip Barrasso says they’re still working to clear holds: “Trying to get that done today.” Asked about Graham’s objections, he tells me: “We’re continuing to work with l members of the conference.”

Graham lays out his demands to allow the spending package to go forward later today Expect a major floor speech by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) around 11:30 am et about why he’s holding up the revised government funding package. Graham tells Fox he will lift his hold on the bill if he gets an agreement to have a vote on his bill to criminalize the conduct of local officials who operate sanctuary cities. Graham and other Republican senators believe they have the home field advantage when they talk about the causes which led to the border crisis and illegal immigration. He and other GOPers believe the two week funding window for DHS gives Republicans the opportunity to reclaim the issue. Secondly, Graham wants a vote to expand the pool of up to 190 groups/individuals who wete surveiled by former Special Counsel Jack Smith and give them the right to sue Smith. A provision giving certain Republican lawmakers whose phone records were targeted by Smith the right to sue for $500,000 was stripped from the minibus spending package by the House. So Graham wants to broaden the pool of those who can sue for damages. He also wants to restrict investigations from acquiring future telephonic metadata of House and Senate members unless they are facing a criminal investigation themselves. This would bar future “fishing expeditions.” Graham is willing to allow the spending package to go forward today if his demands are met.

THE SENATE HAS LEFT THE BUILDING. Without passing a shutdown deal. Sen. Lindsey Graham is one big issue - putting a hold on the vote. The senate will return tomorrow at 11a ET. Agencies start the weekend shutdown at 12:01a Saturday.