Folks?
As long as Stephen Miller runs the show from the White House?
Things will NOT stay changed…..
Democrats KNOW that and ARE hanging resolute….
(They HAVE TOO due to HUGE pressure from their base)
They do NOT trust Trump & Co. to hold top promises …..
Here’s the story right now…..
The Senate voted again Friday against moving ahead with a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, nearly five weeks after cash stopped flowing at the agency.
The 47-37 vote comes as the White House attempts to negotiate with a broader range of Senate Democrats on changes to immigration enforcement policies they are demanding after DHS agents fatally shot two U.S. citizens in Minnesota in January.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune is already warning to expect the Senate to cancel its two–week recess, which would start at the end of next week, absent a DHS deal.
The vote comes a day after border czar Tom Homan met with a bipartisan group of senators, including a handful of Senate Democrats who helped negotiate the end of last year’s historic shutdown.
Republicans expect the White House will soon send its latest offer to Democrats for immigration enforcement changes. Democrats have vowed to oppose more DHS funding until there is an agreement in the wake of federal agents killing two people in Minneapolis earlier this year.
“They’ve just got to figure out if there’s … deal space in there, and I think we’ll find out soon,” Thune said Friday ahead of the vote.
Republicans are hoping they could peel off support from some of the Democrats who met with Homan, or help encourage rank-and-file Democrats to pressure their leadership to cut an agreement. But a person with knowledge of the meeting, granted anonymity to speak candidly, said that while it represented progress, it wouldn’t be enough to enable Republicans to peel off one or two Democrats at a time….
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The White House offered additional immigration enforcement concessions to Democrats Friday evening as border czar Tom Homan met a second time with a bipartisan group of senators seeking to end the Homeland Security shutdown, according to lawmakers who attended.
Leaving the private meeting, Republican senators said they hope Democrats respond over the weekend to the Trump administration’s bolstered proposal of immigration enforcement changes meant to address Democratic demands for funding DHS.
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An ongoing complaint about the negotiations from Democrats has been that Republicans and the White House have offered their proposals in recent weeks without legislative text. But Republicans offered fresh draft legislation Friday, put together by the White House, according to Hoeven.
He characterized the latest GOP offer as “building” on a letter the White House sent earlier this week and “providing more detail on it and providing legislative text on it.”….
Morning 3/21/2026…
Billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk is offering to pay the salaries ofTransportation Security Administration (TSA) employees as the partial government shutdown stretches into another week.
“I would like to offer to pay the salaries of TSA personnel during this funding impasse that is negatively affecting the lives of so many Americans at airports throughout the country,” Musk wrote on social platform X, which he also owns, early Saturday morning.
It was not immediately clear how that process would work, or whether it would be legal, given that federal law generally prohibits government employees from receiving outside compensation tied to their official duties.
TSA workers could miss their second full paycheck next week as lawmakers remain deadlocked over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), seeming no closer to an agreement…..
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Midday 3/21/2026….
President Trump on Saturday threatened to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to conduct airport security if Democrats do not agree to a funding bill to reopen the partially shutteredDepartment of Homeland Security (DHS).
“If the Radical Left Democrats don’t immediately sign an agreement to let our Country, in particular, our Airports, be FREE and SAFE again, I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE Agents to the Airports where they will do Security like no one has ever seen before,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
The warning comes after the Senate failed again on Friday to advance a measure to end the funding lapse, with Democrats insisting counteroffersfrom the White House, which have included some concessions, are insufficient.
Democrats are holding firm in their demands to rein in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tactics — calls which grew louder following the deaths of two U.S. citizens at the hands of federal agents carrying out the president’s deportation agenda in Minneapolis last month.
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Afternoon. 3/21/206….
In the protracted battle over DHS funding, Democrats have secured some key wins in recent weeks. But amid pressure from base voters, they’re holding out for more.
Democrats have defended that position, noting their central demand — that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) follow the same rules as other law enforcement agencies — has not been met.
“We’ve had some good victories,” said Rep. Sylvia Garcia (D-Texas), “but I think the ultimate goal is to make sure that all the reforms get done.”
But the strategy carries risks, as DHS workers deemed “essential” have gone without pay for more than a month during the budget impasse, including emergency personnel under the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and airport screeners with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)….
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Democrats remain unmoved. They say their constituents are making clear they want the party to go to the mats to secure new guardrails on ICE and CBP, an effort that was sparked by the deaths of two U.S. citizens at the hands of immigration officers in Minneapolis in January. When they go home, they say the calls to secure those reforms are louder than any fears and frustrations with having parts of DHS unfunded…
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“Democrats have made their demands very clear,” Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), who voted more than a dozen times to reopen the government during last year’s standoff, said afterwards. “I’m glad that the White House is talking with us, but they have a lot of work to do.”
The remarks forecast a long stalemate, despite the mounting pressure on Congress to reopen the DHS that’s stemming from both the snarled airport traffic and the heightened national security risks stemming from the Iran war. …
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“We will not enter a home or a place of business without a judicial warrant unless we’re pursuing an individual that runs into a place of business or a house,” Mullin testified.
The softer tone was welcomed by Democrats, but it wasn’t enough to bring them any closer to a deal on funding DHS. The reason? They simply don’t trust anyone in the Trump administration to make good on their word.
“We’ll need more than a simple statement at a confirmation hearing. We need that ironclad built into the law,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told reporters this week. “We’ve heard Trump nominees regularly give testimony at a confirmation hearing and then become cabinet secretaries and do the exact opposite.”….
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