Key Highlights
- Senate Democrats are in the midst of coalescing around a package of restrictions and reforms that they want to impose on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as part of their quest to rein in the agency’s powers. Though there are several bipartisan restrictions baked into the current DHS funding bill, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N. Y., and his caucus are largely unified in their opposition to the legislation following the fatal shootings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti during immigration operations in Minnesota.
- SENATE REPUBLICANS TEE UP KEY SHUTDOWN TEST VOTE AS DEMOCRATS DIG IN ON DHS FUNDING Sen.
- Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., has a steep price for his vote to avert a partial government shutdown: fire White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.
- (Andrew Harnik/) While he and his colleagues work to find the exact guardrails they want to put onto DHS, Sen.
- Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., upped the ante on what it would take to get his vote: firing White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller, who also serves as Homeland Security advisor to President Donald Trump.
