Just when ya thought things COULD be Done?
They ain’t….
Republican House RightWingNuts do NOT want to agree to limits on Trump’s ICE actions…
That IS a non-starter for Senate Democrats….
We’ll see if Trump takes ICE money to actually start paying TSA people…
The Senator’s have left town….
House Republican leadership said Friday that they will not vote on the Senate’s funding deal for the Department of Homeland Security, and the Senate has already skipped town for a two week recess.
Rep. Lisa McClain, the chair of the House Republican Conference, told NOTUS that the deal the Senate sent over Friday was “garbage” and that the House would not be voting on it.
McClain added that Republicans have an alternate plan and would discuss it on a conference call Friday.
This rejection follows more than 40 days of gridlock in the Senate over Democrats refusing to fund the department without codifying reforms to immigration agencies — specifically Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It’s a battle that came to a head in the early morning hours on Friday when the Senate unanimously passed DHS funding, minus for ICE and parts of Customs and Border Protection. Democrats’ many demands to change immigration enforcement policy did not make it into the bill….
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“What the Senate sent over was a terrible deal, made all the more insulting by the fact that they immediately skipped town to start their vacations early,” Rep. Brandon Gill told NOTUS in a text message.
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Amid congestion at airports and loss of staff and missed paychecks at the Transportation Security Administration, many House Democrats, including Reps. Becca Balint, Nanette Barragán, Gil Cisneros and Greg Landsman were prepared to vote for the deal.
“Hopefully it’s just noise,” Barragán told NOTUS in a text message of Republicans’ opposition. “I can’t vote for ICE funding since they are out of control.”
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Friday that House and Senate Democrats are aligned in supporting the deal and put blame on the GOP for the continued shutdown of DHS…..
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