There’s a deal to end the DHS shutdown, but the crisis isn’t over yet. The Senate has agreed to end the airport chaos and put off the ICE fight. But Trump could still change his mind, and House GOP hard-liners may revolt.
In the middle of Thursday night, in a near-empty Senate chamber, an end to the most perplexing conflict of the second. The measure does not fund immigration enforcement, which doesn’t really matter because ICE and the Border Patrol already have a slush fund of money provided by last year’s.
And an end to the 40-day shutdown isn’t an entirely done deal, since the House needs to ratify the Senate measure. The lower chamber’s arcane procedures will likelyThe precipitating event for the late-night collapse of resistance to DHS funding was likely Trump’s announcement that he hadwithout legislation, which meant the main pressure point of airport-security delays would be removed . Now the president can easily push the partial funding measure through the House if he wants. But he has been quiet about his endgame so far, which will make DHS employees and others desperate for a return to normalcy nervous. Assuming the DHS shutdown is on the edge of being resolved, it’s hard to say either party won or lost this fight. Democrats will be pleased that they maintained a reasonable degree of unity and did not overtly abandon any of their demands for ICE reforms. But they didn’t force major concessions from the administration or the GOP, either. And now they’ll be sidelined as Republicans pursue funding of immigration enforcement through aRepublicans will also be pleased they didn’t have to formally “cave” on ICE restrictions and can now abandon any pretense of bipartisanship for the rest of this midterm-election year. Hard-line House Freedom Caucus types will be a bit conflicted: Some will remain upset that they couldn’tand that the Senate did not launch a monthslong effort to debate and possibly enact Trump’s wildly toxic but MAGA-pleasing. But on the other hand, the decision to pursue a second Big Beautiful Bill by party-line budget-reconciliation procedures creates a possible path to all sorts of right-wing legislation, from new ICE funding and Iran war supplemental dollars to some SAVE America Act provisions — and maybe conservative health-care panaceas and more election-year tax goodies. Meanwhile, assuming the DHS shutdown really does end, that disreputable department could clear the low bar of improving on both the wretched performance of. As long as Trump is president and his party controls Congress, no prediction is safe, but unless he changes his mind again and plunges DHS and Congress back into the abyss, this one corner of the federal government may resume functioning. For Americans, the experience of air travel could return to its usual condition of deeply frustrating but not completely dysfunctional operations. And politics could focus for a moment on Trump’s war overseas rather than his war on his own federal government.Margaret Hartmann The U.S. treasurer said this unprecedented honor is “well deserved” because Trump has led us into a “golden age economic revival.”Thousands of Marines and elite paratroopers are on their way to the region. Here’s what we know about whether and how Trump may use them.Rex Heuermann, who was arrested in 2023, is expected to admit to the seven murders he has been charged with during a court appearance next month.A new poll shows Platner leading Governor Janet Mills by 27 points, a sign that the oyster farmer is still in firm control of the Maine primary.With the SAVE America Act stalled in Congress, some red states are pushing their own redundant bans on noncitizen voting.The UFC is holding a cage match to celebrate America’s 250th birthday . Here’s what we know about plans, tickets, and the fight card.In the past 40 days, the two parties have switched sides on a proposal to fund everything but ICE. Now the chances of a deal look remote.While border czar Tom Homan has said the ICE agents will be assisting with security, images have circulated showing officers largely standing around.The First Lady introduced a walking, talking humanoid robot at the White House and breezily suggested it will replace human teachers.If the unpopular and economically damaging conflict drags on, Trump and the GOP are in serious trouble for the midterms.Democrat Emily Gregory will soon be representing President Trump in the Florida statehouse after winning his district in a special election.Strict, often oppressive belief systems governed the lives of the Duggars and the Mormon Wives. We preferred it that way.*Sorry, there was a problem signing you up.
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