US government could see shutdown on Friday as Democrats stall funding bill over immigration enforcement reform
A key vote intended to head off a partial government shutdown failed in the Senate on Thursday, after Democrats refused to back funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) unless it included reforms to federal agents involved in Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.
However a Senate aide confirmed that Democrats have been negotiating with Republicans on a deal that could result in passage of most government funding bills and a short-term measure covering the DHS, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the US border patrol.
The intention would be to buy time for further talks over Democrats’ demands for changes to immigration enforcement in the wake of the deaths of US citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis, which include an end to mask wearing by federal agents, the imposition of a code of conduct and independent investigations of its violations.
Nonetheless, the procedural vote’s failure in the Senate appears to guarantee at least a partial government shutdown beginning after Friday, when the current spending authorizations for many government departments expire. Any changes to the DHS funding bill would have to be approved by the House of Representatives, which is out of session until Monday.
Man can’t wait to see them shut it down for 2 weeks to then get absolutely nothing for it again.
They don’t want to even dismantle ICE all they wanna do is change who’s in charge.
I fucking wish we had an opposition party in America
Yeah why do they think he won’t just put some other asshole in there?
These people all need to go. This is a shit government and it should be ended if they aren’t working for us anymore
They would settle for simply doing more training or identification. You know things they try with the police which has been extremely effective at wasting more money
I suspect if the government shuts down for two weeks, what you’ll get is a lot of Americans in the streets.
We shutdown for a month last year. Another two weeks isn’t too much more.
To my understanding the people hurt the most were the poor on food aids last year. This time it’s more federal programs that will be hurt. I would think this shutdown won’t hurt the common person as much? But I’m an illiterate idiot, please teach me.
Don’t tempt me with a good time.
You’re not the boss of me 😜
No one’s going to lose SNAP benefits tho. And DC workers will be paid.
Come on. Neither of those things were supposed to happen last time either. Holding back the SNAP benefits and not paying DC workers were both patently breaking the law and how it’s structured and every agency bent over and did it for Trump anyway.
Sick of people pretending that they won’t do the cruel shit because “it’s not allowed.” They keep doing it and getting away with it even though it’s not allowed!
Last time was over a month
Yah sure. But no way they will stay strong enough for thst again.