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Posted on 03/27/2026 2:03:00 AM PDT by Libloather
Senators passed a last-ditch Homeland Security funding bill early Friday, moving one step closer to ending the 42-day partial shutdown that has sparked major travel chaos at airports across the US.
The last-ditch deal, struck before lawmakers headed off for spring break, will see most of the Department of Homeland Security reopened, but contains no funding provisions for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and parts of Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Democrats are framing the outcome as a win, but their demands for ICE agents to be unmasked were notably absent from the bill.
“In the wake of the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Democrats were clear: No blank check for a lawless ICE and Border Patrol,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, said.
“We held the line.”
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, said the bill was “not the way to fund the department. But, we were out of time.”
“The Dems wanted reforms,” Thune said, according to Politico. “We tried to work with them on reforms. They ended up getting no reforms but, you know, we’re going to have to fight some of those battles another day.”
The bill still has to make its way to the House of Representatives and be signed by President Trump before it becomes law. However, it’s one step closer to ending the shutdown, which has seen Transportation Security Administration workers go without pay.
Senate Democrats blocked a bid to end the partial shutdown earlier Thursday before President Trump vowed TSA agents would get paid as he promised an emergency order to relieve airport congestion.
“We’ve been trying for weeks to fund the whole thing,” Thune said.
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...and created a whole bunch more. What a dipstick.
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“But, we were out of time.”
Time for what asswipe? Get a special escort in the airports? You can’t despise uniparty senators enough, repealing the 17th Amendment would help.
They voted for it because they didn’t want any inconvenience at they airports when they flew back home fir Spring Break.
Republican surrender monkeys at it again.
In judging the merits of the Senate's compromise, one should understand that our politics are equally so thoroughly degraded that the only relevant question about this performance theater is: which side was winning the opinion polls?
“performance theater: opinion polls”
True words
“we’re going to have to fight some of those battles another day.”- Sen. John Thune
Real leaders kick ass, not kick the can down the road. This is typical lack of leadership.
The pubbies caved, yet again. No spine.
And, now? Now, we’ll have raucous fights over ICE and CBP when even the dhimmicraps know the current 20+ million illegals in the country are destroying the lives of millions of actual citizens.
Time to toss out the charlatan politicians and start over, IMO.
Thune folds like a cheap camera. What a f’ing loser. Just another assistant Democrat.
Bad precedent. They need to fund ICE thru reconciliation now, for several years. Even if Vance is elected in 2028, if he doesn’t have control of both houses, ICE won’t get funded
ICE is already funded, and the Dems got no reforms. Dems caved.
No surrender. Democrats got nothing.
1. Ice is already funded through 2029. 2. Democrats got none of the ice stupid reforms they wanted. 3. A Reconciliation Bill is coming.
The demon party wants “reforms” of laws that respond directly to lawlessness. How exactly do you do that?
There shouldn’t be any spring break for them until the senate does their job and passes the SAVE Act.
The vast majority of Republicans voted for full DHS funding.
RINOs as well. They’re going on vacation yet no SAVE Act.
“but contains no funding provisions for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “
Wasn’t ICE funded until 2029 through the BBB?
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