House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday it will be a few days before a government funding package comes up for a vote, all but ensuring the partial federal shutdown will drag into the week as Democrats and Republicans debate reining in the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration enforcement operations.
Johnson signaled he is relying on help from Donald Trump to ensure passage. Trump struck a deal with senators to separate funding for the Department of Homeland Security from a broader package after public outrage over two shooting deaths during protests in Minneapolis against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The measure approved Friday by the Senate would fund DHS temporarily, for two weeks, setting up a deadline for Congress to debate and vote on new restrictions on ICE operations.
I suspect that’s what tariffs and Venezuelan oil are for. Skipping the Congress.
The sooner we shot it down, the more apparent this will be and higher chance it won’t work for him.
Yeah, the money from that is literally being put into foreign bank accounts instead of being held by the US government. Supposedly it’ll be give back when they’re ready, or whatever bullshit they say. If this is true, why those bank accounts? Shouldn’t it be the US government that holds onto it?
Only very gullible would fall for argument that you need to keep money in a foreign account that is unreachable by Congress or Judiciary until things “are ready”, but then here we are.
Yeah, it is so the US government can’t seize it. I’m worried that they are there to keep gestapo running when Congress finally wakes up.