U.S. Budget Bills | Senate passes partial funding, House kills it

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Travelers are facing the longest TSA wait times in history​


The Transportation Security Administration is experiencing the longest wait times ever in its 24-year history because of the ongoing partial shutdown, the agency's deputy administrator, Ha Nguyen McNeill, told the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.

Wait times at some major airports have exceeded four hours, and employees at those airports are calling out of work at rates of 40% to 50%, McNeill told members of the committee. If this partial government shutdown continues into Friday, TSA will have missed almost $1 billion in paychecks since it began, McNeill said.

"This level of disruption is unprecedented, and unacceptable, and significantly undermines the security of U.S. transportation systems," she said.

 
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Senate Votes to Fund Most of D.H.S. in Bid to End Partial Shutdown

The bill excludes funding for ICE and the Border Patrol but restores it for federal airport security workers. The House could consider the package on Friday.
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“…The measure [which passed by voice vote around 3 am] does not include funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Border Patrol, reflecting a proposal that Democrats had offered for weeks as they refused to fund federal immigration enforcement operations without adding new restrictions on agents.

“Senate Democrats were clear: no blank check for a lawless ICE and Border Patrol,” Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, said after the measure passed.

The bill must still be considered by the House, which could vote on it as soon as Friday. It was unclear whether the measure would pass that chamber, where Speaker Mike Johnson holds a narrow Republican majority. A number of hard-right Republicans have criticized the Senate’s approach and oppose a funding bill that does not include new money for immigration enforcement.…”
 
A bit of intrigue for now — if the House passes this, will Trump sign it?

He claimed recently he would not sign any more legislation until the SAVE Act is passed.

Will he TACO or throw the whole thing into further chaos?
 
nycfan said:
A bit of intrigue for now — if the House passes this, will Trump sign it?

He claimed recently he would not sign any more legislation until the SAVE Act is passed.

Will he TACO or throw the whole thing into further chaos?
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My money is on taco.

He doesn't want to be the cause of airport disasters during spring break.
 
Sigh

Johnson is railing against radical democrats wanting to keep criminal “illegals” in the country to murder people

Will (try to) pass a 60-day CR instead and send that back to the Senate (which has gone home for Easter Break).
 
nycfan said:
Sigh

Johnson is railing against radical democrats wanting to keep criminal “illegals” in the country to murder people

Will (try to) pass a 60-day CR instead and send that back to the Senate (which has gone home for Easter Break).
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I hear him ranting and haven't much paid attention to what's going on. I don't expect to fly anytime soon so please forgive me. But if this mess at the airports continue for another two weeks.............then great.
 
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