Today’s notice: DHS funding negotiations unravel. The House’s spy powers reauthorization gets complicated. Mary Peltola’s spending spree. Progressives roll out a new policy agenda. Plus: The latest installment in our Capitol Gains series.
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It’s official: You’d rather be in line at the airport than dealing with the Senate’s DHS funding quagmire. This morning marks 41 days of shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security, and the Senate appears to be about as close to a solution as it was on Day 1.
Maybe less close, even. “They’re clearly, and tragically, not bargaining in good faith,” Republican Sen. Susan Collins seethed last night about her Democratic colleagues — not her standard tone when it comes to dealmaking. Democrats said similar things about Republicans and Donald Trump, as NOTUS’ Hill team reports on a very frustrated Senate.
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Republican negotiators are having trouble getting their conference (and Trump) on board to first fund DHS without money for immigration enforcement, then find a pathway to fund ICE and pass parts of the SAVE America Act. A planned vote on this scheme last night was canceled after Senate Republican Leader John Thune came out and told reporters, “There’s no point in doing that.”