Closing summary
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This brings our live coverage of the day in  to a close, but we will return on Friday when a vote on a stopgap Republican spending bill in the Senate will determine whether or not the government shuts down. Here are some of the day’s developments:

*   Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic minority leader in the Senate, said that he will vote to allow the deeply partisan Republican spending bill become law because a government shutdown would do more harm.
    
*   Congresswoman **Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez**  that Senator **Chuck Schumer**’s statement was “a huge slap in the face, and I think that there’s a wide sense of betrayal.”
    
*   In a letter sent to the president of Columbia University and the co-chairs of its board of trustees on Thursday, the Trump administration’s antisemitism task force demanded nine specific changes to university policies and structures before negotiations over federal funding would begin.
    
*   Columbia announced the same day it received the letter that it had complied with item one on the list of demands: expelling and suspending pro-Palestinian student protesters who occupied Hamilton Hall and took part in Gaza Solidarity encampments.
    
*   Representative **Raúl Grijalva** had died after a long battle with cancer, his office  on Thursday. His seat will remain vacant until at least September.
    

Democratic representative Raúl Grijalva dies due to complications from cancer treatments
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Representative Raúl Grijalva had died after a long battle with cancer, his office  on Thursday.

Grijalva, who was 77, was  and a former congressional Progressive caucus chair first elected to Congress in 2002.

He announced his cancer diagnosis 11 months ago, but was re-elected to Congress in November with 63% of the vote.

His colleagues mourned his death.

“A genuinely devastating loss,” Representative **Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez** of New York  on social media. “Raúl Grijalva stood as one of the biggest champions for working people in all of Congress. His leadership was singular. He mentored generously and was an incredible friend. I will always be grateful for his lifelong courage and commitment.”

“Congressman Grijalva was not just my colleague, but my friend,” Senator **Ruben Gallego** of Arizona . “As another Latino working in public service, I can say from experience that he served as a role model to many young people across the Grand Canyon State. He spent his life as a voice for equality.”

Grijalva represented the seventh district of Arizona in the closely divided House. The seat will now remain vacant until .

In 1996 a federal judge found the legal provision now being used to target Mahmoud Khalil unconstitutional. She was Trump's sister.

As our colleagues Anna Betts and Erum Salam  on Wednesday, a government  addressed to Mahmoud Khalil, a permanent US resident and green card holder who is currently being held in a Louisiana detention center, said that secretary of state Marco Rubio “has reasonable ground to believe that your presence or activities in the United States would have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States”.
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