This IS the Second Govt. Shut Down in the second Trump Admin, eh?
The House is up to approve the Senate funding Bills and some changes to the Homeland Security Department to be worked on over the next few weeks…
It DOES appear that Congress IS going to step in to regulate and wind down the Trump/Miller/Noem Minnesota beat down campaign thru Congressional legislation sorely needed….
The partial government shutdown is poised to last through at least Tuesday as House Democrats decline to commit to providing the votes needed to fast-track approval of a funding package to reopen the government.
The House Rules Committee is scheduled to meet on Monday at 4 p.m. to consider the funding package and other legislation it will tee up for the week. Floor votes to approve procedural rule legislation setting the terms of debate for the package, and then a final vote on the funding package, are not expected until Tuesday at the earliest.
“We’ll get this done by Tuesday, I’m convinced,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said on “Fox News Sunday.” “We do have to do it by a rule process, which will probably have to be on our own.”
“I don’t understand why anybody would have a problem with this, though. Remember, these are the bills that have already been passed. We’re going to do it again. It’s a formality at this point,” Johnson said.
House GOP leadership moved to usher the funding package through the regular rules process after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told Johnson over the weekend that House Democrats would not commit to providing the votesto move the funding package under a fast-track process, which would require substantial Democratic support….
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday that he supports some of the federal immigration enforcement reforms backed by Democrats.
“Some of these conditions and requests that they’ve made are obviously reasonable and should happen. But others are going to require a lot more negotiation,” Johnson told host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Democratic leaders in both chambers are proposing changes to how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) personnel conduct operations, as the Senate on Friday passed a $1.2 trillion funding package consisting of five regular appropriations bills and a two-week stopgap measure for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE and CBP.
The House was in recess Friday, which meant that funding for 78 percent of the federal government lapsed at midnight Saturday. The stalemate is likely to last through at least Tuesday after House Democrats refused to commit to a fast-track approval of the funding package.
On Wednesday, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) proposed prohibiting roving federal immigration enforcement patrols, expanding warrant requirements for federal law enforcement, adopting a universal code of conduct for federal officers and banning officers from wearing masks while conducting operations….
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Johnson noted his support for banning roving patrols and mandating that federal immigration officers wear body cameras. But the Speaker said that officers wear masks “to protect their own identities and protect their own families” and argued that expanding warrant requirements would add a “whole other layer of, effectively, bureaucracy” for immigration enforcement….
Note….
Trump maybe support DHS head Kristi Noem…
But Congress IS flexing on her control over the Dept.
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