Senate reaches deal to fund most of DHS
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It’s a face-saving move for two parties who’d grown tired of airport chaos and wanted to leave Washington.

The Senate approved a deal early Friday to reopen almost all of the Department of Homeland Security, exempting funding for immigration enforcement under ICE and Customs and Border Protection.

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Under this deal, which still needs to pass the House and be signed by President Donald Trump, Democrats don’t get the immigration enforcement changes they demanded and Republicans don’t get additional immigration enforcement funding.

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  • Sharkticon@lemmy.zip
    82·
    1 day ago

    So Democrats don’t get anything and Republicans don’t get the additional funding they didn’t need cuz they already got all the funding they needed last time? That about the skinny of it?

    • Lemmyng@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      1 day ago

      Yep, a waste of time and a bill at best, more capitulation of the Democrats at worst.

      • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        1 day ago

        Yeah, I mean on the one hand I think what Dems were theoretically asking for here was stupid (more regulations on ICE in exchange for more funding for ICE when they have already been flagrantly violating laws left and right), so in terms of actual policy coming out of this I think this is the second best outcome we could have gotten (best would have been keeping DHS shut down until Trump was impeached and removed and ICE was totally defunded or until midterms and reassessing from there).

        But on the other, the fact that Dems didn’t get the stupid thing they were asking for is a pretty hollow victory to campaign on for anyone paying close attention, and (assuming the House and Trump sign off on this) now we can’t point to the TSA and FEMA and etc. agencies being unable to function under this administration as further evidence they need to be removed from power as quickly as possible, which is really the only logically defensible position anyone can take.

      • tidderuuf@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 day ago

        That’s the goal of Dems right now hoping that Trump will continue his stupid moves. Lately he’s been making short sighted decisions and the only thing he sees is that moronic voter restriction law.

        Headlines will obliterate him if he doesn’t sign this as more Americans stand in long TSA lines for spring break, the majority of those people travelling likely voted for him at one point.