Key Highlights
- Senate Democrats aren’t budging on their Homeland Security demands, and appear ready to again thrust the government into a partial shutdown as Republicans scramble to keep the lights on.
- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N. Y., announced that he and Senate Democrats were prepared to reject a short-term funding extension, known as a continuing resolution (CR), for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) just days ahead of the funding deadline."We’re 3 days away from a DHS shutdown, and Republicans have not gotten serious about negotiating a solution that reins in [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] and stops the violence," Schumer said on X.
- "Democrats will not support a CR to extend the status quo." SHUTDOWN CLOCK TICKS AS SCHUMER, DEMOCRATS DIG IN ON DHS FUNDING DEMANDS Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N. Y., announced that Democrats wouldn't accept a funding extension to DHS with just days left until a partial shutdown.
- (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via ) Congress has until Friday at midnight to fund the agency, and as the days go by, the odds of doing so are becoming increasingly slim.
- Schumer’s edict comes as both sides of the aisle continue negotiations behind the scenes on a compromise bill to fund the agency. Senate Democrats unveiled the legislative text of their 10-point proposal over the weekend, and for a time, Republicans were optimistic that talks were moving in a positive direction.
