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Good morning.

Here’s what you need to know:

Trying to keep the lights on

• With government funding set to expire by the end of the week, Congress would need to pass a stopgap spending measure to avoid a shutdown on Saturday.

As part of that effort, Democrats are pushing to protect hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the U.S. illegally as children.

Republicans say they want to address the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that protects those immigrants, but to do so separately from government funding.