The White House and Senate Democratic leaders continued to trade offers and kept the details of negotiations private, signaling some hope — but no guarantee of an agreement.

The White House and Senate Democratic leaders continued to trade offers and kept the details of negotiations private, signaling some hope — but no guarantee of an agreement.

Department of Homeland Security is poised to shut down this weekend as Congress remained deadlocked Thursday on a path forward before leaving town for a weeklong holiday break.

The White House and Democratic leaders have continued to trade offers, signaling some hope for an agreement. But it remains unclear which Democratic demands the White House will agree to when it comes to slapping restraints on immigration enforcement after federal agents killed two American citizens in Minnesota.

With Congress out of town, DHS will shut down beginning at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. That means that federal employees at agencies such as FEMA, the Transportation Security Administration and the Coast Guard won’t be paid, though most of them will continue showing up for work because their jobs are considered critical.

  • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
    15·
    13 hours ago

    The Coast Guard is largely good, and obviously FEMA. But I agree, shut the DHS down and move those functions elsewhere.

    • Fmstrat@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Since early this year [2025], FEMA has denied major disaster requests from at least six Democratic states out of ten submitted, including California for wildfires, Washington for flooding, and Maryland for severe storms that caused millions in damage to communities in the western part of the state. These denials have been appealed by governors like Maryland’s Wes Moore, who described the rejection of nearly $34 million in relief as a “gut punch” to vulnerable residents still rebuilding. Trump has also made explicit threats to withhold aid from blue states unless they comply with unrelated policy demands, such as enacting voter ID laws in California, a move that legal experts argue undermines the impartiality of federal disaster response and erodes principles of federalism.

      https://medium.com/@lovefoods_54026/understanding-the-federal-disaster-aid-divide-between-red-and-blue-states-federal-funding-dd6786d0e77e

      Still think FEMA?

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        35 minutes ago

        Yes, they still do good, hence the requests for their aid. The Trump adm. just sucks.

    • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 hours ago

      USCG used to be under the Department of Transportation, and would move to under the Navy during wartime. They got shoved into DHS when that department was created. Move them back to DOT like they used to be…

    • monkeyjoe@lemmy.world
      8·
      11 hours ago

      Move the Coastguard and FEMA, arrest all of ICE and other federally funded criminal organizations