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Live from NPR News in Washington, D.C. i'm Dale Willman. The federal government remains in a partial shutdown as a deal approved by the Senate moves to the House. As part of that deal, funding for the Department of Homeland Security would be extended for just two weeks so Congress can debate concerns over ICE operations.
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The idea is a short term funding, you know, will force changes to dhs. This got through the Senate but now goes to the House where some Republicans and Democrats aren't satisfied. On the right, some members don't want any DHS reforms. These Republicans also want to include election integrity legislation that requires proof of citizenship. On the left, some members don't even, you know, support that two week funding of DHS.
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That's NPR's Luke Garrett. House Speaker Mike Johnson, meanwhile, says it could be a few days before that body votes on the package deal. The president partial shutdown will continue. In the meantime, the state of Missouri has launched the latest Republican led attempt to alter a key set of numbers from the U.S. census. As NPR's Hansi Lo Wang reports, these population numbers influence how presidents and members of Congress are all elected.
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A key set of census results is used to determine how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes each day gets for a decade. The 14th Amendment says those results must include the quote, unquote, whole number of persons in each state. But Missouri is asking a federal court to order the Census Bureau to exclude residents without legal status and those with visas from the 2030 Census and the 2020 Census. No state resident has ever been excluded from a US Census because of their immigration status. Louisiana, Kansas, Ohio and West Virginia filed a similar lawsuit last year. Republican lawmakers have introduced bills and President Trump has voiced his support while pushing for redistricting to help Republicans keep control of the US House. Hans Zila Wang, NPR News.
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Much of Ukraine's capital has been plunged into cold and dark this winter as Russia steps up its attacks on that country's energy grid. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports that while some residents have left the city, others are responding to the crisis by throwing parties.
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ICE parties are the latest way Ukrainians are coming together to survive Russia's onslaught with with barbecues and disc jockeys along the frozen Dnieper river and on Kyiv's massive reservoir. I'm at an ice party in Kyiv. It's on the reservoir, which is also known as the Kyiv Sea. It's amazing. People are coming out to dance. They're also racing and spinning their cars and dune buggies along the vast expanse of ice. The temps are frigid, but the sun is bright. Anton Kucherenko says he came out to forget the war. People just want to have fun, relax.