With Trump saying he’d move money to pay TSA?
The Senate moved in a late evening vote to approve 2026 funding for the Homeland Dept minus ICE and parts of CBP….
TSA workers have NOT been paid for a over a month…..
ICE and CBP actually have money to have their people to contiune to be paid…
But those funds have to come from somewhere else and Homeland new boss Mullin will have to come back to Congress to replace the money spent on ICE and CBP involved in nationwide immigration enforcement .
Trump’s plead for attaching his SAVE Bill fell in deaf ears as did the effort get around the 60 vote Senate rule….
Donald didn’t get over on those things…
The deal came together swiftly after months of often-stalled negotiations and just before lawmakers were set to depart for a two-week recess — and as hours-long lines at airport TSA checkpoints put enormous pressure on them to act.
Senate leaders sent around a hotline request to senators early Friday morning to see if there would be objections to funding the TSA, the Coast Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) by unanimous consent. The proposal also included funding for customs officers at border checkpoints.
When it returned without objection, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) moved quickly to unanimously approve the funding that had been stalled for more than 40 days…
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“Democrats held firm in our opposition that Donald Trump’s rogue and deadly militia should not get more funding without serious reforms, and we will continue to fight for those reforms,” he said.
“I’m very proud of our Democratic caucus. Throughout it all, Senate Democrats stood united—no wavering, no backing down,” he added.
The plan B funding deal approved by the Senate still needs to be approved by the House, which is scheduled to convene on Friday.
The sudden action by the Senate raises questions about whether Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will be able to pass the package before the weekend, when both chambers are scheduled to begin a two-week Easter recess.
Trump would also need to sign the legislation for it to become law.
Thune expressed cautious optimism the president would do that….
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Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), a strong Trump ally, urged his Senate colleagues to cancel the recess to continue working on a bill to fund the entire Homeland Security Department and continue debating the SAVE America Act.
“Cancel the recess. Fund DHS. Pass the SAVE America Act. Failure to do this will produce defeat In November,” Lee posted on the social platform X.
Senators, however, ignored that demand and agreed to go on recess with a plan to reconvene in regular session on April 13….
Note…
Ah?
TSA HAS STILL LOST almost 500 people…..
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