Deal calls for splitting a funding bill for DHS from a package of other funding bills
Senators have reached a deal to advance a major package of spending bills to avert a partial government shutdown that was set to begin on Saturday.
The office of Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat, confirmed the deal calls for splitting a funding bill for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from a package of other funding bills, and that the deal would fund DHS for two weeks at its current levels.
The deal would avert a partial shutdown that would have affected many of the government’s functions. The House, which is out of session, would have to approve the revised package. The government’s current spending authorizations expire after Friday, while the House in not back until Monday.
The Senate could vote on the deal as soon as Thursday evening. In the House, speaker Mike Johnson, told the Associated Press that he had been “vehemently opposed” to breaking up the funding package, but “if it is broken up, we will have to move it as quickly as possible. We can’t have the government shut down.”
Chuck Schumer is a fascist collaborator. I’m so tired of the presumption that he will ever represent any kind of opposition to the republican fascist project.
Man can’t wait to see them shut it down for 2 weeks to then get absolutely nothing for it again.
They don’t want to even dismantle ICE all they wanna do is change who’s in charge.
I fucking wish we had an opposition party in America
Yeah why do they think he won’t just put some other asshole in there?
These people all need to go. This is a shit government and it should be ended if they aren’t working for us anymore
They would settle for simply doing more training or identification. You know things they try with the police which has been extremely effective at wasting more money
I suspect if the government shuts down for two weeks, what you’ll get is a lot of Americans in the streets.
Don’t tempt me with a good time.
You’re not the boss of me 😜
We shutdown for a month last year. Another two weeks isn’t too much more.
To my understanding the people hurt the most were the poor on food aids last year. This time it’s more federal programs that will be hurt. I would think this shutdown won’t hurt the common person as much? But I’m an illiterate idiot, please teach me.
No one’s going to lose SNAP benefits tho. And DC workers will be paid.
Come on. Neither of those things were supposed to happen last time either. Holding back the SNAP benefits and not paying DC workers were both patently breaking the law and how it’s structured and every agency bent over and did it for Trump anyway.
Sick of people pretending that they won’t do the cruel shit because “it’s not allowed.” They keep doing it and getting away with it even though it’s not allowed!
Last time was over a month
Yah sure. But no way they will stay strong enough for that again.
So they’re going to break off the DHS funding for a separate, later conversation instead of doing an extended shutdown. Gee, where have we seen this brilliant strategy before.
FFS, someone primary Schumer he is absolutely a toxic enabler of fascism.
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
Schumer isn’t stupid. Are his Blue No Matter Who voters?
So they just gave up their leverage?
Holy shit the democrats are a joke
They’ll cave. They aren’t doing this because they think it’s the right thing to do, they’re doing it to keep their jobs. They weren’t even interested in the idea of blocking DHS funding until the uproar about the latest ICE murder was louder than they anticipated, so now they’ll act like they care, at least for a couple weeks until they cave.
Idiot spineless assholes.
Why the fucking fuck does that shitty government always shut down?
It seems like only weeks ago it was shut down to get rid of the free/cheap(lol) healthcare.
This is pathetic. A government should never shut down, it’s not a fucking burger van. Jesus.
He will do as Israel commands
Fucking worthless Democrats.
Body cameras are going to help make us safer, they wouldn’t want their murders caught on camera. You can tell that by the way one of them took the trouble to use his cell phone to film him murdering a woman. Ohhhh…
Headline is straight up lies. They literally said they would fund DHS on a temporary basis to buy time to discuss ICE reforms
Let’s fund it so we have more time to stop funding it!
And it works, look at the comment you replied to and how many people think it’s a good point.
So great to have the Dems help calibrate the goon squad to be more palatable to the public.
Schumer won’t let them have a dime without body cameras and retraining. That will surely solve the problem!
They wanted to give them more money!
Reforms? No. Abolish ICE and the entire DHS.
Does the DHS funding also require 60 votes? Or is that gonna just be a majority vote that Dems can be like “sEe iTs NoT us!”?
Yet we’re still supposed to support these old jackasses who refuse to just drop dead where they’ll find better use as maggot food.
