Posted on 03/25/2026 9:37:42 PM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON — Democrats keep making demands to fund the Department of Homeland Security — leaving in limbo thousands of federal workers who can’t afford to miss another paycheck on Friday.
Senate Republicans accused Democrats of derailing a once-promising sign earlier this week of getting a deal done to end the partial shutdown of DHS with their latest proposal.
Democrats unveiled their counteroffer Wednesday that GOP sources described as more demands, though Dems insisted they are just digging in on existing asks to reform Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Nonetheless, the proposal threw a wrench in the talks — and a vote in the Senate to end the shutdown failed again with nearly all Democrats voting no.
“It’s not even close to being real,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) gasped to reporters about the latest counterproposal, noting “it includes things that they know are nonstarters.”
“I don’t know how you get to a solution where they keep moving the goalposts and where, when you hit a target that they said would be acceptable, they walk away from it,” Thune later added. “That’s happened multiple times, including most recently over the weekend.”
Before Democrats made their most recent counteroffer, there were rumblings earlier this week of a breakthrough, a tenuous deal for Democrats to essentially agree to fund all DHS except for ICE’s deportation wing — Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
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They are traitors, pure and simple. This is the worst I have ever seen.
Trump: shut down airports because unsafe, call out National Guard to replace TSA, blame Dems led by Schumer. No deals. Just shut it down.
Groundstop all commercial air carriers and part 135 air charters. Homey don’t play around. TS on their TDS.
-PJ
Just do reconciliation and be done with it. We didn’t vote these weaklings in to let the Democrats stop everything. 😤
This is a classic example of a “tyranny of the minorty” issue. And if Republicans give them an inch on this issue it will open the floodgates for the future. Republicans need to stand strong.
They deserve the same legal fate as the Rosenbergs ⚡
I remember very little from childhood, but I do recall riding in a car with my parents and the announcement of the execution came on the radio news. Mom and Dad were discussing it. (I have no idea why I remember this. I was five years old.)
Schumer the tumor is a kamikaze pilot. He’s desperate for a win over Trump.
The book is cheap and worth the read. It may even be on line by now.
Thune should get real and end the filibuster. Effing loser.
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