It would seem that Republicans in Congress?
Immigration eforcenment is NOT a real important thing to DO…
It’s sole policy fuction is to enable Republicxans to keep beating Democrat’s up for votes….
This seems to be what’s going on with the Spending Bill neede to be voting on to keep several government agencies operation including the Departement of Homeland Security , which of course enforces the Southern US Border…
WH, GOP BORDER FUNDING TALKS DERAIL — Stop us if you’ve heard this before: Negotiations between the White House and House Republicans over funding for border-related matters are going off the rails.
Lawmakers have until Friday to fund the rest of the government and avert a partial shutdown. But this morning, the White House reached out to us to complain that Republicans were “playing politics” with appropriations for the Homeland Security Department, the thorniest of the six appropriations bills that remain.
“Republicans want to underfund DHS, which makes the border less secure and the country less safe,” a White House official said, arguing that Republicans are trying to “sow chaos on the border ahead of November” after tanking the Senate’s bipartisan border security bill.
Yesterday, we’re told, Republicans rejected a Democratic offer to funnel $1.56 billion in additional funding to secure the border — a request that comes as border officials are bracing for a surge this spring as the weather warms. White House chief of staff JEFF ZIENTS and counselor STEVE RICCHETTI, we’re told, “made it clear” to Speaker MIKE JOHNSON that Republicans proposed funding levels will cripple border security. The standoff raises the stakes that we could see yet another continuing resolution for DHS.
“This means less agents to secure our border, less officers to protect the traveling public, less people to go after drug traffickers than today, less detention beds than today, as well as diminished capacity to respond to disasters, cybersecurity incidents and national security threats,” the official said.
“Republicans have always said we will provide all the resources necessary for enforcement, but that that could never be a blank check to simply ‘manage’ people into the country and bail out sanctuary cities like New York,” a senior GOP House source said. We’re also told by a senior Hill aide that the White House rejected a DHS full-year CR last night….
Note ….
Since the IRS is now working to tax MORE rich people?
Republicans want to cut their budeget spending ALSO?
Makes a LOT of sense , eh?
Update….
Congressional leaders have struck a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through the remainder of fiscal year 2024, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill, closing out the six bills due by Friday’s shutdown deadline.
Negotiators are still working out the details and legislative text of the DHS agreement, the source said, but the DHS legislation will be a full-year bill and not a stopgap, which lawmakers were eyeing over the weekend….
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