Senate Funding Vote, ICE Family Detention Protest, Fed Holds Interest Rates

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<br>Senate Democrats are threatening a partial government shutdown unless Republicans agree to new limits on immigration enforcement by Friday's deadline.<br>A protest at an ICE family detention center in South Texas turned confrontational as demonstrators demanded the release of a five-year-old boy and his father taken from Minnesota and held at the facility hundreds of miles away.<br>And despite pressure from President Trump to lower interest rates, the Federal Reserve is holding steady to fight lingering inflation and rising prices.<br/><br/><em>Want more analysis of the most important news of the day, plus a little fun? </em><a href="https://www.npr.org/newsletter/news"target="_blank" >Subscribe</a><em> to the Up First newsletter.<br></em><p class="readrate">Today’s episode of Up First was edited by Kelsey Snell, Susanna Capelouto, Rafael Nam, Mohamad ElBardicy, and Alice Woelfle.<p class="readrate"><p class="readrate">It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Nia Dumas, Ava Pukatch and Christopher Thomas.<p class="readrate"><p class="readrate">We get engineering support from Neisha Heinis. Our technical director is Stacey Abbott.<p class="readrate"><p class="readrate">Our deputy Executive Producer is Kelley Dickens.<p class="readrate">(0:00) Introduction<br>(01:58) Senate Funding Vote<br>(05:41) ICE Family Detention Protest<br>(10:28) Fed Holds Interest Rates<br/><br/>See <a href="https://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>