Is There A DHS Deal In The Senate?

If there is, will it pass in the House?

DHS shutdown breakthrough comes at cost for Republicans as funding fights nears end

Congress is one step closer to ending the Homeland Security shutdown after the Senate advanced a new, last-minute deal, but it came at the price of Republicans ceding ground, temporarily, to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

The Senate unanimously advanced a deal to reopen most of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in the wee hours of Friday morning, 42 days into the shutdown that was spurred by the Trump administration’s immigration operations in Minnesota.

It was an agreement that largely gave Schumer and Senate Democrats what they wanted — no funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and parts of Customs and Border Protection (CBP). But it lacked the stringent reforms they desired, like requiring judicial warrants or requiring agents to unmask. (snip)

The DHS funding deal now heads to the House, where Republicans aren’t enthusiastic about not funding key components of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown agenda.

There it is. But, Democrats did not get a block on immigration enforcement protecting their identities from the unhinged Democrat base, nor on requiring warrants. Which is strange, because Democrats didn’t care about warrants when Obama was deporting all those illegals, nor under Biden.

And ICE and CBP are still flush with roughly $75 billion in cash from Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” giving the agencies a buffer for a time.

“The good news is we anticipated this a year ago. I mean, one of the reasons we front loaded, pre-loaded up the ‘one big, beautiful bill’ with advanced funding for Homeland Security was because we anticipated this was likely going to happen, and it did,” Thune said. “I still think it’s unfortunate. The Dems wanted reforms. We tried to work with them on reforms. They ended up getting no reforms.”

And then Republicans say that they will put funding for ICE and CBP and immigration operations in a reconciliation bill. Will they, though?Never know what you’ll get out of the Squish Squad.

The House is supposed to vote on it today, so, we’ll see what happens. And Thune best not let the Senate leave on a 2 week break before that vote is held.

Democrats want to stop immigration enforcement against people like the above. By extension, they approve of people like that.