Johnson signaled that he was counting on help from President Donald Trump to secure passage. Trump negotiated with the senators to separate funding for the Department of Homeland Security from a broader package after public outrage two shooting dead during the protest in Minneapolis against Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The measure It was approved by the Senate on Friday temporarily fund DHS, for two weeks, to set a deadline for Congress to debate and vote on new restrictions on ICE operations.

“The president is leading this,” said Johnson, R-La., “Fox News Sunday.”

“It was his game call to do it this way,” the speaker said, adding that the Republican president “has already admitted that he wants to reduce the number” of federal immigration operations.

Johnson faces a daunting challenge ahead, trying to push the funding bill through the House while Democrats refuse to give up the votes for quick passage. They asked preventing ICE That’s more than the $20 million for body cameras already in the bill. They want to require federal immigration agents to unmask and identify themselves and push for an end to roving patrols, among other changes.

Democrats are digging the ICE changes

“What is clear is that the Department of Homeland Security needs to be dramatically reformed,” he said House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffriesin New York said on ABC’s “This Week.”

Jeffries said the administration should start negotiating now, not in the next two weeks, on changes to immigration enforcement operations.

“The masks must come off,” he said. “Judicial warrants should be absolutely necessary in accordance with the Constitution, in our view, before DHS agents or ICE agents break into Americans’ homes or take people from their cars.”

All this forced Johnson to trust her slim House GOP majority in a series of procedural votes, starting in committee on Monday and pushing a potential House floor vote on the package until at least Tuesday, he said.

House Democrats plan a private caucus call Sunday night to discuss next steps.

The partial government shutdown continues

Meanwhile, a number of other federal agencies are stuck with funding cuts as the government goes into a partial shutdown at the end of the week.

Defense, health, transportation and housing are among the administration’s shutdown guidelines, although many operations are considered essential and services should not be disrupted. Workers may be without pay if the destruction continues. Others may be furloughed.

It’s the second time in as many months that federal operations have been disrupted as Congress scrambles, using the annual funding process as leverage to push for policy changes. Last fall, Democrats sparked what became the longest federal shutdown in history, 43 days, as they protested the expiration of health insurance tax breaks.

That shutdown ended with a promise to vote down proposals to extend the Affordable Care Act’s tax credits. But the legislation did not advance and the Democrats did not achieve their goal of keeping the subsidies in place. Insurance premiums went up in the new year for millions of people.

Trump wants the shutdown to end quickly

This time, the administration signaled its interest in resolving the shutdown more quickly.

Johnson said he was in the Oval Office last week when Trump, along with border czar Tom Homan, spoke with Democratic Senate leader Chuck Schumer in New York to finalize the deal.

“I think we’re on track to agree,” Johnson said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Body cameras, already provided in the package, and an end to roving patrols by immigration agents are areas of potential agreement, Johnson said.

But he said removing the masks and putting names on the agents’ uniforms could lead to problems for law enforcement officers as they are targeted by protesters and their personal information is posted online.

“I don’t think the president will approve it — and he shouldn’t,” Johnson said on Fox.

Democrats, however, said that immigration operations are out of control, and that this is a state of emergency that should end in Minneapolis and other cities.

More and more lawmakers are calling Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to be dismissed or impeached.

“What’s happening in Minnesota right now is a dystopia,” said Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., who is leading efforts to hold the line for more changes.

“ICE has made the country unsafe, not safer today,” Murphy said on “Fox News Sunday.”

“Our focus over the next wo weeks must be to rein in a lawless and immoral immigration agency.”