They changed their mind’s …..
So has Trump….
There would be no restrictions that Democrats wanted on ICE and CBP….
(But Trump’s polling numbers on hard line immigration are against him)
But those agencies would be force to move money from within those agencies to pay their staff forcing those agencies to cut operations they wouldn’t have the money for….
This would go on till Sept….
The US House is expected to have a Democratic majority come January 1st Next year which WILL affect DHS’s next budgets…
DHS head Mullin is already reviewing Noem spending to make cuts and rearrangements ….
The 2026 Midterms are just about 7 months away…..
*Update….
New York Times: “Last Friday, Speaker Mike Johnson indignantly dismissed a Senate-passed bill deal to reopen the Homeland Security Department without funding for immigration enforcement as a ‘joke.’”
“By Wednesday, he was jointly issuing a news release with the Senate leader endorsing it.”
“But early Thursday morning, he declined to bring it up in the House, punting a chance to try to reopen the department until at least mid-April and avoiding the risk that hard-right Republicans would either block it or threaten to oust him for doing so. Then, he spent much of the afternoon huddled in a heated conference call with his angry GOP colleagues, privately trying to persuade them to eventually embrace the deal, which he had decried as ‘ridiculousness’ just days before.”
“That, too, apparently failed; there were no plans for the House to quickly reconvene, and by Thursday evening, it was not clear when or even whether Mr. Johnson might bring the bill up.”
Senate and House Republican leaders announced on Wednesday an agreement to move forward with legislation to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, resurrecting a bipartisan deal that President Trump and the House G.O.P. had angrily rejected last week.
The plan would fund the department through Sept. 30 but omit money for the agencies carrying out Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown. G.O.P. leaders hoped to push it through without any debate or formal vote as early as Thursday morning, though hard-right Republicans irate about the deal signaled they might not allow it to move quickly.
Under their plan, Republicans said, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol would continue to be paid for out of funds the G.O.P. pushed through Congress last year over solid Democratic opposition. This year, Democrats have refused to approve spending for those agencies without new restrictions on federal immigration agents’ conduct.
The spending bill does not include any such restrictions, which Democrats began demanding after immigration officers killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis….
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A senior White House official said Mr. Trump, who had blasted the funding deal as “inappropriate” last week, would sign it should it reach his desk.
It would end a more than six-week interruption in agency operations that has made history as the longest partial shutdown, left tens of thousands of federal employees furloughed or working without pay and badly snarled airport security operations. Mr. Trump ordered last Friday that Transportation Security Administration workers be paid out of available agency funds.
Both the House and Senate, which have recessed for a two-week spring break, have special ceremonial sessions scheduled for early Thursday morning, when the stalled legislation could be taken up, approved and sent to the president as long as no lawmaker objects….
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The agreement represents a sharp turnaround by the president and House Republicans, who last week condemned the funding compromise forged in the Senate, which senators had approved early Friday morning by unanimous agreement with no recorded vote. The G.O.P. representatives portrayed it as a surrender to Democratic obstruction and harshly derided it as a “joke,” in Mr. Johnson’s words.
But on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Trump signaled a retreat was coming when he posted a demand on social media that Republicans deliver to his desk by June 1 a proposal to fund his immigration crackdown through a special budget process that could skirt a Democratic filibuster….
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“Throughout this fight, Senate Democrats never wavered,” Mr. Schumer said in a statement. “We were clear from the start: Fund critical security, protect Americans, and no blank check for reckless ICE and border patrol enforcement.”
Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, also crowed about the outcome, issuing a statement that said: “Mike Johnson and House Republicans have come to realize that we will never bend the knee.”
Administration officials earlier sought to break off some moderate Democrats who had joined with Republicans to end last fall’s governmentwide shutdown, but they resisted. Republicans eventually concluded that Democrats were not going to back ICE and border control funding without strict new conditions on agent conduct that the White House was not willing to accept, leading to the Friday compromise passed in the early morning hours….
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Democrats, who would play no role in drafting the legislation, have also been skeptical that Republicans can remain unified enough to pass a party-line bill that addresses funding for ICE and other top G.O.P. priorities, particularly when they are faced with a narrow House majority and approaching midterm elections. Several swing-district lawmakers are carefully navigating immigration politics in an election year….
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