House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Republican leader John Thune said Republicans would pursue a two-track strategy to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security, days after Johnson had dismissed a Senate-passed stopgap bill as “a joke.”
The plan called for the House to move the Senate-approved measure that funds most of DHS now, excluding U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and then use budget reconciliation to fund those enforcement agencies over the coming weeks or months, according to a joint statement from Johnson and Thune posted on X Wednesday.
The development came as DHS continued operating in a partial shutdown that began in mid-February and snarled airport security, with President Donald Trump separately signing a memo to pay Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees amid the standoff.
I don’t understand how this is a DNC win. Doesn’t this just fund DHS this week and ICE with whatever budget the Republicans want as they no longer need a 60% majority after this?
This means that the bill will have to be passed through reconciliation which means that they will have to strip all the extra stuff out that isn’t about money. That means no anti-trans stuff and no election interference stuff. And they might not even have enough votes to get it done that way.
Great. Bargaining away the fire for now in order to stay in the frying pan.
The alternative is jumping in the fucking fire, so there’s that.
The fire is inevitable. The longer it gets put off, the longer it will take to finally put it out, and the more suffering we will all experience.
Well, I guess ya might as well stick ur own dick into the meatgrinder right now then.
Best to just get it over with early, eh?
My dick being in a meatgrinder is not at all inevitable.
That you?
The ol’ Schumer Shell Game! 3 Card Jeffries!
Only win was the constitutionally illegal Save Act didn’t get passed.
ICE is just funded. Because the “power of the purse” was always fake.
Pretty sure the OBBB republicans passed last summer gave them an entire $70 billion to spend outside of their annual budget…
Yeah, ICE has still been operating without any hiccups this whole time due to extra funding from Trumps Big Bill. Forcing the republicans to cave on the two track approach means opening up TSA/etc. while still hamstringing ice and CBP. Maybe not as much as we’d want, but for Republicans to struggle so hard with the majority they have reinforces the unpopulairty of these agencies.