U.S. Budget Bills | DHS funding impasse continues
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The tax payers bore the cost of 150 million dollars to pay for Trumps golf expenses in his 1st term. We have now paid over 100 million for his golf trips in his 2nd term.
250 million in golf expenses and he has over two years left to play even more golf. The Donald should announce that he is going to personally donate 250 million dollars to help out TSA workers.
Taxpayers’ Tab for Donald Trump’s Golf Habit Crosses $100 million
This is Trump's 56th visit to his course in West Palm Beach and 110th golf day in just over 14 months in office, keeping him on track to spend $300 million on golf.
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Has anyone seen a good writeup of what happened with the bill the Senate passed late Thursday night? I’m trying to figure out if this is signaling something meaningful about what’s happening in the Republican caucus. Best I can tell —
The Senators all went home yesterday morning so I don’t know if we know yet what happened, but this feels like a really big story to me. Are the Republicans in the Senate finally jumping ship as Trump takes their approval ratings to historic lows? Or is it possible the Senate Republicans didn’t really mean to do what they did, as Johnson said yesterday? Either way, I find this fascinating.
- More or less out of the blue, every single Republican Senator suddenly caved and approved a bill that was 95% of what the Democrats have been pushing for (only excluding statutory reforms on ICE’s conduct).
- The House Republicans don’t seem to have been consulted about this AT ALL, and were livid when they woke up yesterday morning to see this had happened.
- We don’t know anything yet about what role, if any, the White House played in the Senate bill, except Johnson (who cannot be believed about anything) said Trump agrees with his strategy and not the Senate’s.
The Senators all went home yesterday morning so I don’t know if we know yet what happened, but this feels like a really big story to me. Are the Republicans in the Senate finally jumping ship as Trump takes their approval ratings to historic lows? Or is it possible the Senate Republicans didn’t really mean to do what they did, as Johnson said yesterday? Either way, I find this fascinating.
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Trump Administration Live Updates: House and Senate Republicans Reach Deal to End Homeland Security Shutdown
Senate and House Republicans announced an agreement on Wednesday to move ahead as early as Thursday morning with legislation to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, resurrecting a bipartisan deal that President Trump and the House G.O.P. angrily rejected last week.
The plan would fund the department through Sept. 30 but omit money for the agencies carrying out Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown. Republicans said Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol would continue to be paid for out of funds they pushed through Congress last year over Democratic objections. This year, Democrats have refused to approve spending for those agencies without new restrictions on federal immigration agents’ conduct.
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Republican leaders in Congress announce plan to end Homeland Security shutdown
House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune have announced a plan to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security and try to end a record partial government shutdown.
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“…They said in a joint statement that “in the coming days” Republicans in Congress will pursue a two-track approach. The first track returns to the Senate plan to fund most of the department, with the exception of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Border Patrol. On the second track, Republicans would try later to fund those agencies through party-line spending legislation.
Neither outcome is guaranteed, and the strategy could potentially still face opposition from the GOP’s own ranks even though President Donald Trump has given his support….”
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It's a weird situation. One one hand, it smacks of a 'King Trump' type of action but, on the other hand, I really want to see these poor people, who are the victims of political dysfunction, get paid.
I also think there's a chance he's bluffing.
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House Punts on Homeland Security Funding, Prolonging Shutdown
Even after Speaker Mike Johnson agreed to a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security without immigration enforcement money, the House failed to take it up amid hard-right opposition.
House Punts on Homeland Security Funding, Prolonging Shutdown
Even after Speaker Mike Johnson agreed to a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security without immigration enforcement money, the House failed to take it up amid hard-right opposition.
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House Democrats had already said they would back the measure, allowing it to pass the chamber easily if Mr. Johnson were to put it to a vote and persuade enough Republicans to follow his lead in supporting it. And a senior White House official said on Wednesday that Mr. Trump, who had blasted the plan just last week, would sign it.
But ultraconservative Republicans have slammed the plan because it lacks money for immigration enforcement. They argue that it guts the agencies that police the nation’s borders, though Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol operations have been funded throughout the partial shutdown through a separate slush fund from the tax cut bill Republicans pushed through the House last year.…”
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Johnson keeps spinning this shutdown as a problem caused by Democrats. That looks increasingly silly in light of this latest development. All of their own Senators voted for the bill which would have ended the shutdown. smdh
God this is so so disgusting. We live in an oligarchic kleptocracy.
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What was the point of this partial government shutdown? What did the Dems accomplish? It certainly wasn't worth all the pain inflicted upon the workers and the public. Can we at least agree that having regular and routine government shutdowns is not the way to run the government or for the minority to exercise power?
At the beginning of this the Dems said they wanted to exercise leverage to : 1. Remove masks from ICE; and 2. Require judicial warrants. Neither was accomplished. Meanwhile, ICE agents never missed a pay day (just like Congress) so it was the TSA and Coast guard (and support staff) who were punished.
And you wonder why the public hates Congress.
At the beginning of this the Dems said they wanted to exercise leverage to : 1. Remove masks from ICE; and 2. Require judicial warrants. Neither was accomplished. Meanwhile, ICE agents never missed a pay day (just like Congress) so it was the TSA and Coast guard (and support staff) who were punished.
And you wonder why the public hates Congress.
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I think you mean what did GQPers accomplish by not passing the Senate bi-partisan bill in the House yesterday without taking a vote before going on a two week vacation ?
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You answered your own question about what they hoped to accomplish, and still do. The public supports those measures. Overwhelmingly. The can is being kicked down the road.
ICE paychecks continued because the Big Beautiful Boondoggle funded them. Very generously, and at the expense of healthcare and other publicly beneficial programs. The messaging on that should have been better.
I would have liked to see Democratic Congresspersons unanimously donate their pay to TSA and CG servicemembers, by way of example.