After recent high-profile use of force encounters, federal officials have seemingly rushed to offer full-throated defenses of immigration agents, raising questions about whether previously enshrined mechanisms meant to hold law enforcement accountable for wrongdoing have been all but abandoned in President Donald Trump’s second term.

President Trump signed the bill into law in the Oval Office after the House voted to pass the funding measure earlier in the evening.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Labor Department will release its numbers on September hiring and unemployment next Thursday, a month and a half late, marking the beginning of the end of a data drought caused by the 43-day federal government shutdown.

The longest shutdown in US history is over after President Donald Trump signed a funding bill to reopen the government.

In her ruling this week, Judge Frimpong said that lawyer visiting hours at B-18, which is in the basement of a federal building, have been closed down repeatedly without letting lawyers know, despite her ordering the government to notify them.

The Senate-passed bill to end the record-long government shutdown moved to the full House for a final vote after a key House panel advanced it early Wednesday.

Texas leaders and politicians have issued statements throughout the week with varying responses to a government funding bill that passed the House and was signed by President Trump on Wednesday.