Key Highlights
- Senate Republicans are marching forward with a massive funding package to avert a partial government shutdown, despite Senate Democrats doubling down on their resistance to the Homeland Security funding bill.
- Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S. D., on Tuesday teed up a key test vote for the six-bill package for Thursday.
- The move allows Senate Republicans time to hash out a deal with Senate Democrats, who are demanding several restrictions on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Republicans are eager to find a middle ground that doesn’t involve modifying the current funding package, given that doing so would almost guarantee a government shutdown and jeopardize funding to several other federal agencies, including the Pentagon.
- THUNE STEAMROLLS DEMS' DHS REVOLT AS FETTERMAN DEFECTS, SCHUMER UNDER PRESSURE Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S. D., teed up a key test vote on a funding package to avert a partial government shutdown as Democratic resistance threatens to thrust Washington, D. C., into chaos.
- (Kevin Dietsch/) But Democrats aren’t willing to budge, for now, until the DHS bill is stripped and sidelined.
