Welcome to Meet the Press Now.

I'm Gabe Gutierrez in Washington, where the White House is facing blowback from Democrats and pushback from Republicans over comments made by President Trump about taking over elections

in Democratic-led states and also having Republicans in Congress nationalize elections.

The White House trying to clarify and walk back some of those comments amid the escalating

resistance on Capitol Hill.

We'll have much more on the president's comments and the fallout in a moment,

but the controversy comes as Congress has approved a Trump-backed funding deal,

ending a brief partial government shutdown.

The House narrowly passing the legislation this afternoon,

with 21 Democrats joining with 196 Republicans to send it to the

president's desk after it passed the Senate last week. President Trump, who urged House lawmakers

to pass the measure with no changes yesterday, is vowing to sign it immediately. The deal is setting

a stage for a two-week fight over funding for ICE and the Department

of Homeland Security sparked by the Trump administration's immigration crackdown in Minnesota.

The White House previewing those negotiations today.

We're willing, obviously, to have this dialogue and to talk and to listen, but we are not going

to concede in enforcing our nation's immigration laws and delivering on the mandate the president's willing, obviously, to have this dialogue and to talk and to listen, but we are not going to

concede in enforcing our nation's immigration laws and delivering on the mandate the president

was given by nearly 80 million Americans to deport illegal alien criminals from our country.

It all comes after DHS Secretary Christy Noem announced yesterday that all federal officers

in Minneapolis would be equipped with body cameras in the wake of the killings of two U.S. citizens, Renee Good and Alex Prattie, by federal officials.

Today, here in Washington, we heard from Good's brothers who testified at a Democratic forum on DHS force.

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