House GOP leaders have a tough task ahead in passing a two-step plan to end the record-setting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown as their members call for passage of a Republican-only bill to fund immigration enforcement before they accept a bipartisan Senate bill to fund the rest of the department. House Republicans are feeling whiplash, and on a closed conference call Thursday they fumed over pressure to pass the Senate bill. That measure, which has already passed the upper chamber via unanimous consent, would fund the bulk of DHS outside of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, leaving funding for those agencies in a GOP-only reconciliation bill to pass by June 1. Democrats have refused to vote for…
Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy joins NewsNation to discuss the deadlock in Congress regarding Department of Homeland Security funding. "The Hill on NewsNation" combines the power of two trusted news sources to define today's most-pressing issues, and question Washington's power brokers on what matters most to the people they serve and what matters most to Americans.
On Friday's "National Report," Democrats have issued a list of demands in order to avoid a shutdown of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding. NEWSMAX's Kilmeny Duchardt reports.
NewsNation has learned that a deal to avoid a lengthy government shutdown over immigration enforcement in Minnesota has been struck in the Senate. Funding for the controversial Department of Homeland Security would be separated from a larger package of spending bills for negotiations, but lawmakers would offer the agency stopgap funding for some services, NewsNation correspondent Joe Khalil reports. #Politics #ICE #DHS "The Hill on NewsNation" combines the power of two trusted news sources to define today's most-pressing issues, and question Washington's power brokers on what matters most to the people they serve and what matters most to Americans.
