Dems dig in, guarantee shutdown with block of DHS funding
What's the endgame here?
Lawmakers are jetting from Washington, D.C., without a deal to prevent a partial government shutdown.
Their departure comes after the Senate was unable to send a full-year funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to President Donald Trump’s desk.
Senate Democrats doubled down on their demands for stringent reforms to immigration enforcement, and bucked multiple attempts to keep the agency open on Thursday.
DHS FUNDING BILL FAILS AFTER SCHUMER REJECTS TRUMP’S ICE REFORM OFFER
With both chambers now on their way to a weeklong recess, the agency is expected to shutter at midnight Friday. Unless a deal is struck before lawmakers return, DHS will be shut down for at least that period of time.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., made the call to send lawmakers home, and noted that if negotiations made a breakthrough they would be on 24-hour notice to return. But talks, for now, are somewhere between baby steps and stuck.
"What it appears to me, at least at this point, is happening is the Democrats, like they did last fall, they really don't want the solution," Thune said. "They don't want the answer. They want the political issue."
SCHUMER, DEMS CHOOSE PARTIAL SHUTDOWN AS NEGOTIATIONS HIT IMPASSE
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and his caucus blocked an attempt to pass the original DHS funding bill and a subsequent two-week funding extension.
Their resistance comes after the White House unveiled the legislative text of the administration’s counter-offer, which several Senate Democrats balked at Thursday morning.
"The administration doesn't actually want to reform ICE," Schumer said. "They never do it on their own. That is why we need — we are fighting for — legislation to rein in ICE and stop the violence."
Senate Democrats have demanded a stringent list of reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). They weren't persuaded by border czar Tom Homan that operations in Minneapolis would be drawn down as negotiations continue.
It was a déjà vu moment from months earlier, when Thune repeatedly tried to peel Democrats away from Schumer during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history but failed to break their blockade.
SHUTDOWN CLOCK TICKS AS SCHUMER, DEMOCRATS DIG IN ON DHS FUNDING DEMANDS
While there was optimism that negotiations were moving in a positive direction earlier this week, those hopes appeared to have shattered.
"At this point, it seems clear that the Democrats are going to walk away from that bipartisan conversation," a senior White House official said. "They're going to shut the …
What's the endgame here?
Lawmakers are jetting from Washington, D.C., without a deal to prevent a partial government shutdown.
Their departure comes after the Senate was unable to send a full-year funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to President Donald Trump’s desk.
Senate Democrats doubled down on their demands for stringent reforms to immigration enforcement, and bucked multiple attempts to keep the agency open on Thursday.
DHS FUNDING BILL FAILS AFTER SCHUMER REJECTS TRUMP’S ICE REFORM OFFER
With both chambers now on their way to a weeklong recess, the agency is expected to shutter at midnight Friday. Unless a deal is struck before lawmakers return, DHS will be shut down for at least that period of time.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., made the call to send lawmakers home, and noted that if negotiations made a breakthrough they would be on 24-hour notice to return. But talks, for now, are somewhere between baby steps and stuck.
"What it appears to me, at least at this point, is happening is the Democrats, like they did last fall, they really don't want the solution," Thune said. "They don't want the answer. They want the political issue."
SCHUMER, DEMS CHOOSE PARTIAL SHUTDOWN AS NEGOTIATIONS HIT IMPASSE
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and his caucus blocked an attempt to pass the original DHS funding bill and a subsequent two-week funding extension.
Their resistance comes after the White House unveiled the legislative text of the administration’s counter-offer, which several Senate Democrats balked at Thursday morning.
"The administration doesn't actually want to reform ICE," Schumer said. "They never do it on their own. That is why we need — we are fighting for — legislation to rein in ICE and stop the violence."
Senate Democrats have demanded a stringent list of reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). They weren't persuaded by border czar Tom Homan that operations in Minneapolis would be drawn down as negotiations continue.
It was a déjà vu moment from months earlier, when Thune repeatedly tried to peel Democrats away from Schumer during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history but failed to break their blockade.
SHUTDOWN CLOCK TICKS AS SCHUMER, DEMOCRATS DIG IN ON DHS FUNDING DEMANDS
While there was optimism that negotiations were moving in a positive direction earlier this week, those hopes appeared to have shattered.
"At this point, it seems clear that the Democrats are going to walk away from that bipartisan conversation," a senior White House official said. "They're going to shut the …
Dems dig in, guarantee shutdown with block of DHS funding
What's the endgame here?
Lawmakers are jetting from Washington, D.C., without a deal to prevent a partial government shutdown.
Their departure comes after the Senate was unable to send a full-year funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to President Donald Trump’s desk.
Senate Democrats doubled down on their demands for stringent reforms to immigration enforcement, and bucked multiple attempts to keep the agency open on Thursday.
DHS FUNDING BILL FAILS AFTER SCHUMER REJECTS TRUMP’S ICE REFORM OFFER
With both chambers now on their way to a weeklong recess, the agency is expected to shutter at midnight Friday. Unless a deal is struck before lawmakers return, DHS will be shut down for at least that period of time.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., made the call to send lawmakers home, and noted that if negotiations made a breakthrough they would be on 24-hour notice to return. But talks, for now, are somewhere between baby steps and stuck.
"What it appears to me, at least at this point, is happening is the Democrats, like they did last fall, they really don't want the solution," Thune said. "They don't want the answer. They want the political issue."
SCHUMER, DEMS CHOOSE PARTIAL SHUTDOWN AS NEGOTIATIONS HIT IMPASSE
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and his caucus blocked an attempt to pass the original DHS funding bill and a subsequent two-week funding extension.
Their resistance comes after the White House unveiled the legislative text of the administration’s counter-offer, which several Senate Democrats balked at Thursday morning.
"The administration doesn't actually want to reform ICE," Schumer said. "They never do it on their own. That is why we need — we are fighting for — legislation to rein in ICE and stop the violence."
Senate Democrats have demanded a stringent list of reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). They weren't persuaded by border czar Tom Homan that operations in Minneapolis would be drawn down as negotiations continue.
It was a déjà vu moment from months earlier, when Thune repeatedly tried to peel Democrats away from Schumer during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history but failed to break their blockade.
SHUTDOWN CLOCK TICKS AS SCHUMER, DEMOCRATS DIG IN ON DHS FUNDING DEMANDS
While there was optimism that negotiations were moving in a positive direction earlier this week, those hopes appeared to have shattered.
"At this point, it seems clear that the Democrats are going to walk away from that bipartisan conversation," a senior White House official said. "They're going to shut the …
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