The Trump $190 Billion for Immigration Funding was Never gonna last in it’s entirety….
Democrats ARE holding firm on making cuts and limitations on ICE and CBP even if the Republicans try to use Trump ‘War’ effort to beat them down….
This IS one way to do just THAT….
Republican and Democratic senators are quietly mulling ways to limit the impact of a prolonged government shutdown on air travel and, by extension, the broader U.S. economy amid a stalemate on funding the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
TSA officers are set to miss their first round of paychecks later this week, which has lawmakers in both parties bracing for rising absences at the agency and growing lines at airports around the country.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and other Republicans are now floating the idea of shifting some of the funding Congress allocated in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last year for border security and immigration enforcement to airport security during the shutdown.
Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (Ill.) says he’s open to the idea of letting the Trump administration shift money that was allocated in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to allow TSA agents to continue to get paid during an extended shutdown.
“I’m open to the idea, but I want to see a good-faith effort by the Republicans in the Senate and the administration to deal with the ICE problem,” Durbin said, referring to ICE’s aggressive tactics in Minneapolis, which have sparked a national backlash….
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Thune says he’s open to the administration shifting some of the $190 billion in funding that was allocated to the Department of Homeland Security in last year’s budget reconciliation package to keep TSA workers paid for the duration of the partial government shutdown…
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Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), the ranking member of the Homeland Security Committee, said “TSA agents should be paid.”
“I’m very supportive of that. Our beef is not with TSA at all,” he said. “We have to look at the mechanism but I’m open to any suggestion to make sure that they’re getting paid.”
“We’ll see the details of what it is,” he said.
Peters said he would also be open to splitting off the funding titles for TSA and other critical Homeland Security agencies, such as the Coast Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), from ICE and Border Patrol, though Republicans have opposed splitting up the funding bill.
Democratic negotiators submitted their last offer to the White House to reform ICE and CBP in exchange for funding the Department of Homeland Security on Feb. 16. They didn’t get a counterproposal from the White House until Friday.
“So far they have not budged on the key issues like masks, like warrants, like oversight from state authorities,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters during a recent update he provided on the talks.
Lawmakers in both parties are pessimistic about reaching a deal anytime soon….
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With this brewing?
One suspects that Homeland IS gonna HAVE TO to the brakes on what they thought WAS gonna be a unlimited’ spending spree….
Will Noem have to give back the jets she thought she brought?
How about the tailored suits for the Secret Service agents?
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