Trump hosts Petro as Congress pushes stopgap to end shutdown

President Trump meets with Colombia’s Gustavo Petro at the White House as the House advances a short-term spending bill to reopen major parts of the government and fund the Department of Homeland Security for about 10 days, while talks on longer-term immigration enforcement continue. The meeting comes amid lingering tensions between the U.S. and Petro. Separately, the Clintons agreed to publicly testify in the Epstein investigation after a House Oversight standoff, and Democrats are pushing for faster independent review of ICE use-of-force amid a broader DOJ weaponization debate.