When a reporter asked Trump on Thursday evening whether or not he would be drawing back in Minneapolis, he responded: “Well, we want to keep our country safe. We’ll do whatever we can to keep our country safe.”
“So, not pulling back?” the reporter asked.
“No, no, not at all,” the president said.
This stands in stark contrast to what his administration has said this week.
After federal agents killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti on Saturday, Senate Democrats had threatened a government shutdown over the inclusion of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding and, within it, a historic increase to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) budget.
Seemingly in response, the Trump administration scrambled to claw back some of its messaging.
The White House reneged on top officials’ comments calling Pretti an “assassin” and “terrorist,” and the administration booted Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino from his position overseeing the raid in Minneapolis. The new chief of Operation Metro Surge, “border czar” Tom Homan, assured the media that the operation was going to “draw down.” Trump himself said on Tuesday that “we’re going to deescalate a little bit” in Minneapolis.
And, for good measure, Trump administration insiders leaked some stories to the media about turmoil within Trump’s cabinet about immigration policy.
Just hours after Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) announced that they had reached a deal to avert a shutdown, however, Trump changed his tune. That deal, which would give DHS two weeks of funding to operate while negotiations are ongoing, was announced Thursday afternoon.
Trump’s comments lend credence to critics who said that the administration was only posturing about deescalating while never planning to do so.
The Senate still hasn’t passed the funding package due to some Republican holdouts. However, other Republicans have framed the negotiations as a win — and critics have slammed the deal as one that disproportionately benefits Trump.
The threat of a government shutdown was a major leverage point for Democrats. It would begin this weekend, just a week after federal agents’ killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, giving Democrats power over Republicans to extract concessions on the Trump administration’s ICE operation.
Trump was desperate to avoid it — especially after his party shouldered much of the blame for the historically long shutdown last year. In a post on Truth Social on Thursday evening, he lauded the package.
Meanwhile, critics have slammed Schumer for the deal, which only buys Republicans time to distance themselves from the Pretti killing and continue the administration’s raids in Minneapolis and other cities unhindered.
“Leader Schumer should ask the Minnesotans who are watching their neighbors get killed in cold blood if a deal with no plan to stop ICE is enough right now,” said MoveOn Civic Action.
After federal agents killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti on Saturday, Senate Democrats had threatened a government shutdown over the inclusion of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding and, within it, a historic increase to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) budget.
Seemingly in response, the Trump administration scrambled to claw back some of its messaging.
Just hours after Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) announced that they had reached a deal to avert a shutdown, however, Trump changed his tune.
Chuck Schumer, somehow the only man worse at making business deals than Donald Trump.
What. The. Fuck. Is wrong with this stupid fucking coward? You essentially had your enemy by the testicles. You finally had the upper hand, and you give him a two weeks grace period?
And to the surprise of nobody, he immediately does what he obviously was going to do the entire time.
I get you don’t want to sink to the Republican level of refusing to ever compromise, but this wasn’t about taxes. It wasn’t even about healthcare. It was about funding the fucking gestapo, and rather than refusing you willingly compromised?
Did you at least negotiate for that seriously ill 5 year old kid to get some healthcare? Or maybe demand clean food and water for the people being held in these fucking sardine cans making evil rich fuckers trillions of dollars? Did you get DHS immigration oversight reestablished? Please tell me you got some kind of guarantee that things would improve on literally any level for any of the people currently being forced to suffer for no reason other than so selfish assholes can continue to profit. Because if not,
WHAT THE FUCK, DID YOU GET OUT OF THIS DEAL YOU FUCKING COWARD?
You’re still assuming Chuck Schumer is against Trump. He’s not. They’re on the same side. This isn’t a battle between political parties. It’s a battle against the rich and everyone else. Schumer isn’t bad at making deals. He’s excellent at making people think he’s trying.
He’s excellent at making people think he’s trying.
Is he, though?
For those who think “vote blue no matter who?”
Absolutely
I’d disagree only with that last part. His role isn’t to make people think he’s trying. Quite the opposite. His role is to be a dumping ground for the frustration of the Democratic party. His role is to tank the majority of the criticism. “We just need to replace Schumer”, “We just need to overturn the fillabuster”, “We just need to overturn citizens United”, “We just need to vote blue no matter who”.
The constant lies that liberal voters believe that keeps them inactive in anything but electoral politics. When you believe the system is fixable by a set of specific goals you remain fighting within that system instead of fighting against it.
We just need to replace First past the post voting.
Wait, are they going to make the leader of the party the rotating villain this season?
That’s . . . novel I guess?
In “conspiracy land” nobody is stupid, bad at their job, incompetent, or makes mistakes. There are no coincidences. Everything is done on purpose and it’s successful.
You then just warp everybody’s motives to fit your new conclusions.
You’re right, no one ever does anything on purpose. Somehow the richest and most powerful people in the world are all stupid, bad at their job, incompetent, and make mistakes. There are only coincidences. Nothing is done on purpose.
Somehow the richest and most powerful people in the world are all stupid, bad at their job, incompetent, and make mistakes.
HAVE YOU HEARD ELON MUSK SPEAK? Or TRUMP for that matter? These people are morons.
They’re good at what made them rich and powerful! They’re not good at much else, they’re not smart about much else, and they can’t really do much else. But! They’re still they’re very good at what they do, and they love doing it.
They have a specialized set of skills and interests that revolve around making money and gaining influence/power.
Your enemies aren’t dummies, that’s why they win. Stop underestimating them. They’re gonna fucking kill us all.
They’re good at what made them rich and powerful!
They’re not perfectly good at it.
They’re very good at it. Anyone can make mistakes but they’re certainly not stupid, bad at their job, or incompetent.
USA Today:
The legislation, which cleared the Senate by a 71-29 vote, extends spending for the Department of Homeland Security − which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol − for just two weeks while lawmakers negotiate over ICE reforms, and funds other government agencies through September.
He gets funding through September for programs and authorities which actually help people, and if the other reconciliation bill passes the house then they get ICE Reforms but that’s less likely now that Trump is rejecting any such reforms.
You should stop viewing the Democratic party as anything but a controlled opposition. Are their individuals within it that are exceptions? Absolutely, any good controlled opposition party will allow a percentage of good people in it to further legitimize it. They may even be able to get small positive changes passed. Again, further keeping you believing that the system works. “We just need more good people”. But that is a lie.
Uneducated people fall for the reactionary lies of the Republican party. Educated people fall for the comforting lies of the Democratic party.
There is only one party in this country and that party serves the interest of the capitalist class.
Once you accept this reality you’ll be less frustrated and instead filled with rage. We need your rage to manifest into action and organization; not your frustration that only keeps you inactive.
Find DSA, PSL, or other immigrant rights organizations in your area. Learn from what Minnesota has built in its resistance and prepare with your community for when your neighbors and you inevitably are the targets. Washington is not going to stop doing what the rich command. They’ll burn the whole country down around them to keep their power and pedophile islands.
And don’t let the right wing parts of the DSA try to sucker you back into the Democratic Party.
They will. DSA is the field, not the team - and you’re there to pull it hard to the left.
I assume the goal is to neuter ICE and maintain funding for things like FEMA and the TSA, right? What would shutting down DHS right now do that couldn’t be accomplished over the next two weeks? If DHS shut down right now, ICE still operates, because they already have $72 billion allotted from the “BBB.”
That Republicans agree to fully fund the government without fully funding DHS is a serious win for Democrats. Agreeing to this current deal is a no-brainer and is not “folding.” I’ll reserve my judgment for how things end up after the next two weeks
What would shutting down DHS right now do that couldn’t be accomplished over the next two weeks?
2 people were (I believe intentionally) murdered in a little over 2 weeks this past month. DHS is currently holding Minnesota hostage to get them to agree to force their local police to turn people over for ICE, and seem to be escalating.
Now DHS has 2 more weeks to turn up the pressure on local officials by commiting more murders and causing more chaos.
They’ve also just started a warehouse buying spree so they can detain even more people.
Again, this might be a logical argument if we were talking about a normal Republican vs Democrat disagreement. We’re not. A 2 week grace period for terrorists to keep terrorizing America makes no fucking sense. I’m not sure if there has ever been such an obvious justification for a shutdown.
The people supporting the terrorists would be blamed for that shutdown. The ball has truly never been more in Schumer’s court. It was so obvious even Trump who is barely cognizant of reality anymore due to dementia, was aware of it and actually worried instead of doubling down for once.
You’re asking what can the evil villain holding the entire world hostage do, when you let him off with a slap on the wrist, after he thought he might have actually gotten caught this time? Obviously he will do what he always does. Double down and escalate. Do whatever he has to do to get what he wants and take back the narrative; false flag attacks, distractions, literally nothing is off the table…This has to be obvious to people. These are not normal shitty politicians these are terrorists!
But the question still remains, what would be accomplished by shutting down DHS right now, given that ICE already has $72 billion appropriated to them and would continue to operate no matter what? If the goal is to rein in ICE or abolish ICE, how do you realistically get there this way?
Because the threat of the shutdown was making Trump back down. As soon as he was no longer worried about that threat he was back to escalating.
The economy is about to fucking crash, or possibly has already crashed, and Trump is buying himself as much time as he can before he loses the last of his chances his supporters are still giving him for some reason.
Because Trump was actually scared that the government was going to shut down, and there would be no way for him to offset the blame. Schumer just took the burden off of his shoulders.
Let the government shutdown and refuse to compromise until there are actual consequences for what has happened.
This was their chance to make a list of demands, and instead of something bold but still very reasonable like:
•Make border patrol leave Minneapolis immediately
•Fire every ICE agent who was hired during the period when Miller demanded flooding the zone and bypassing background checks. If people want to reapply through the proper process and pass background checks they can. This is not only reasonable it should be fucking mandatory for liability reasons, it shows consequences, and at least slows the damage being inflicted.
•Last I checked, DHS was refusing to even identify who shot Pretti or release the body cam footage that allegedly exists. I know Schumer is asking ICE not be allowed to wear masks to prevent this in the future, but this information should be released immediately and there should be consequences for DHS ever refusing to comply with public accountability.
•Give local officials more power and autonomy when it comes to reigning DHS in, because they’re definitely not stopping this shit anytime soon. If you want to prevent a civil war, something like this is not only very reasonable it’s very necessary.
Instead the demands are things like “agree to no longer deport U.S. citizens.” In other words “please start following the law.” You don’t have to sink to your enemy’s low and refusal to compromise to play hardball, but even now when shit is this serious, Schumer and Jefferies seem to be incapable of doing anything other than placating the administration.
I’m not even in the “there’s no difference between the Democrats and Republicans so why bother,” propaganda camp, but I do know for a fact there often isn’t a difference in who funds both sides. So either they’re: A. Really bad at their jobs, B. More concerned about pleasing their donors than protecting America, or C. They have something like Stockholm or battered wives syndrome. Most likely it’s D. Some combination of all of the above.
This is why we need to get dark money out of politics. Any politician who doesn’t want the job without the extra kickbacks, and complains about the measley 6 figure tax funded salary they’re expected to live on (and believe me this would be the majority of politicians on both sides) should have been forced out of the game a long time ago.
A small nitpick, the government shutdown hasn’t been averted until the house votes on the bill which funds the government through September but only funds the DHS for two weeks. Funding officially ran out on the 30th of January. We might be in a shutdown and not even know it yet.
Also, if you care about campaign funding then the DNC are your dudes. The DNC platform includes reversing citizens united SCOTUS decision which requires a constitutional amendment meaning 60 votes. It would limit individual contributions and ban PAC money completely.
There is popular support to abolish ICE, but the democrats would never do it because most democrats actually support ICE.
We (leftists) have been telling you since forever, the democrats are 90% as bad as Republicans. We need to get rid of both parties, they are enemies of the people.
See, it’s people like you with your purity tests that stopped 90% Hitler from winning! We’d only have 1.8 people publicly executed by ICE in the last week if it wasn’t for you!
You had me in the first half, not gonna lie.
How exactly would the Democrats do that, having control of none of the branches of the federal government?
They wouldn’t do it even if they controlled the entire planet with magic rainbow unicorn powers. They do not want to. They increased funding for ICE, they granted additional powers to ICE, they LOVE ICE. Democrats are fucking TRAITORS dude, you need to wake tf up.
Just shut down the fucking government already.
They’d have to be opposed to what ICE is doing to consider that.
ABWD amirite?
What’s that?
It is a acronym.
The Government has not yet averted the Shutdown, the House has to vote on the version of the bill handed to them by the Senate which includes DNC demands on changes to ICE and DHS procedures.
Given Trump’s statement on this, it probably won’t pass.
However, a bill has passed with funds the government through September but only funds the DHS and ICE for 2 weeks.
If the DNC are smart about this then they will fund the government but just let DHS funding lapse just like the GOP did to the Medicaid premiums deal.
I’m a Democratic Senator and I hear you LOUD and CLEAR! FUND ICE!
You can have your fun dice after you stop ice
Or they don’t pass it out right so DHS gets nothing and we apply the same economic pressure like last time (seriously the shutdown only failed because Democrats caved despite the politics where in their favor.)
Your suggestion is equivalent to the last line of my comment.
If I understand correctly you are arguing for the DHS funding to fail in the house correct?
Yes. Oh, sorry, was your stance a complete shutdown?
The only way to stop fascism is to make them hurt.
Yes. Complete shutdown. Wake people the fuck up.
Shit like this makes me throw in the towel of caring about politics. I don’t want to vote for anyone anymore. When nobody wants to hold active traitors accountable for their destructive actions, what’s the fucking point anymore?
Dems are just hoping for people to vote for them this year but they’re not making very convincing arguments as to why we should, after we’ve seen them fold and fold again to an active threat to everyone’s lives.
When nobody wants to hold active traitors accountable for their destructive actions, what’s the fucking point anymore?
To help other people even if you don’t get the things you want. Plenty of politicians fucking suck. Most of them suck actually. Very few are as punitive and destructive as the oligarchs who give Trump his orders.
Also if you don’t like your house rep or senator vote for one you do like or run yourself. My house rep is not the most amazing, he also isn’t dollar tree shitler. My senators both suck, but they keep getting re-elected. I still vote just to vote against them.
Idk if anyone is going to primary Schumer, but maybe somebody is. If they’re in your district why not put your support behind them? It’s hard to pretend you care about the death of democracy if you can’t even be bothered to exercise your rights that shitler and the gang keep “joking” about getting rid of. This apathy bullshit just helps spread disinformation and emoldens shitty politicians to feel like they can get away with this shitty behavior. If you don’t care why would they?
If you need a more convincing argument than “vote for us or our opponents will shoot you in the head” then idk what to tell you, man. At least look at the situation from a less biased source of news, first: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/01/30/government-shutdown-2026-live-updates/88420111007/
It’s pretty sad that this is the most convincing argument a Democratic supporter can come up with. “We won’t shoot you in the head (but we’ll let other people do it)” is all they’re willing to offer and you still argue that they deserve anything from us.
DNC has 45 senators
GOP has 53
That’s why you have a gun to your head, idiot.
Funny, because when Biden didn’t do things, it was supposedly cause it took 60 Senators to wipe your ass.
Now, suddenly, it doesn’t?
The Biden Admin:
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reimplemented Obama era 72 hour holding limit for the ICE and a strict criminal-only focus
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expanded overtime pay eligibility to millions
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forgave $186 Billion of student loans despite constant pushback from Republican AGs and courts
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increased audits for the rich, which payed for itself and more
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allowed over-the-counter birth control to hit the markets
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pardoned thousands of marijuana convictions, commuting 2500+ sentences
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awarded $286 million for schools student mental health programs
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replaced more federal vehicle fleets with all electric
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expanded solar and wind power across the nation
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drafted new anti-redlining predatory mortgage regulations which went into effect in January
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a crackdown on hidden fees from service providers, ticket sellers, and banks
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forced Chinese companies to properly report SEC Filings in order to remain publicly tradeable
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expanded less carbon intensive farming practices in the USA
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expanded nature conservation and national parks more than any past president, including $4 Billion for the preservation of the shrinking Colorado River
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cut federal funding for career training programs which trap their students in more debt relative to their post-graduation earnings
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brokered a peace deal in the Congo
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strengthened alliance with Japan and South Korea over countering potential threats from China and North Korea
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funded medical research for things like cancer, countering the previous cuts by Republicans
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helped Class-A railroad workers to have industry-wide paid sick leave, albeit after he undercut their strike he still aided them in getting all of their demands in the following months
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literally penned the first and then only AI oversight and regulation with his AI Executive Order
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investigated grocery store price gouging and blocked mergers such as Krogers-Albertsons
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The Respect for Marriage Act which protects gay marriage
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protected LGBT+ Service Members and Veterans
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signed multiple executive orders protecting lgbt+ throughout the federal government including “prevent and combat discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation” and “advance equality for LGBTQI+ individuals”
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appointed the first openly LGBTQI+ Cabinet Secretary, White House Press Secretary, and White House Communications Director, the two first openly transgender people to ever be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and the first out lesbian to achieve the rank of Ambassador.
What the Biden Admin could not do without 60 votes:
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Public Option Healthcare identical to Germany’s
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A constitutional ammendment reversing Citizens United. The effect of this reversal is removing all PAC money from campaign funding and limiting individual contributions
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Reversing the GOP and Trump’s tax bill which had cut taxes for the rich. The GOP also raised taxes on the lowest bracket and most middle class.
Sorry, did THE PARLIAMENTARIAN approve this copy paste?
lmfao
When presented with easily verifiable facts your response is to accuse the opponent of being some kind of plant or paid troll?
Nice counter-argument, you really made yourself look so sophisticated and honest just now. /s
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We have a gun to our head because we have two parties that are complicit in making it that way. If they had a majority theyd be feeding you a different excuse about how “now is not the time for rocking the boat. Its a time to reach across the aisle and heal the country” as they pass more bills giving Republicans everything they want. It’s as if your memory only convers the last two weeks of events and you buy all the empty gestures and lip service told to you.
There is one and only one party with a gun to your head and your complacency would allow them to keep their power.
Right. Democrats are the good guys because they say nice things on TV. It doesn’t matter that they vote with Republicans more often than not and do absolutely nothing to right the ship because Republicans are clearly the bad guys and by comic book movie logic, Democrats must be the good guys.
We must support them despite the mountains of evidence showing that they don’t give a shit about any of us and have no intention of making things better. Don’t trust your eyes and ears. Trust faith and belief.
Directly below us in this thread is a list of things that the DNC did under the Biden admin because that user made the same exact bs claim that you did.
Your feelings are completely valid. I have been telling people for a long time, voting is harm prevention and nothing more. Voting can’t solve the issues we have, only revolution can do that. Vote for the least worst option and take part in activist efforts, and someday soon, the US will be free.
How is voting for the Democrats harm reduction though?
I didn’t say it was, I said that voting for the least-worst candidate is harm reduction. I usually add “at best” but I neglected to write it on this occasion.
“So, you’re not gonna stop projecting about the Epstein files?” the reporter asked.
“No, no, not at all,” the pedofile sex offender said.
Expecting anything less is foolish
We watch the same old dance of the democrats baring their one buck tooth at the republicans, then accepting whatever table scraps are thrown their way. Then the republicans smack the scrap from the democrat’s hands and laugh, while the US continues to suffer.
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Trump is a narcissist, and his entire administration follows suit.
The prayer applies:
That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
Trying to hold the administration accountable Will Not Work. Only external influences will.
Don’t forget to vote for the Washington Generals every election!
They’re due, baby!
his party shouldered much of the blame for the historically long shutdown last year
“much of”?
To him: fuck you, you fucking fuck.
Schmuck needs to be booted out. They’re all just giving Moscow a nice time laughing.
People have to understand that Republicans and Democrats are the same thing, its the same serpent which bites its own tail. Its controlled opposition.
This argument persists because it is easier to believe that everything is rigged than to engage with the complexity of political institutions. It provides an emotionally satisfying shortcut, but it collapses under even a minimal amount of empirical scrutiny.
In the article, the minority party is described giving up a strong bargaining lever in exchange for vague promises with no guarantee of follow through. Again.
Controlled opposition. The rest of the world sees it. Why not Americans?
I really do not agree with this statement. I think their actions speak for themselves and it’s quite easy to see through that.
Dude. The heads of both parties are all over the Epstein files. They all hang out in the same social circles. It’s a big club, and you’re not in it.
The last two Democrat presidents aren’t on that list. And yet they sat on that intel and let the GOP take power. Bizarre.
Democrats fell for it again? How am I not surprised?
I’m non-US, so forgive me in advance.
But if there’s an agreement with the Trump regime, they have to take it at his word, even though it’s useless, right? There’s already nothing to remove him from power (vote of no confidence, double dissolution etc.).
Wouldn’t it be better to shut down the government until they get what they want, not the other way around? I suppose a better leader would do that but Schumer seems like controlled opposition to me.
At this point something is broken. The rest of the world sees that this is not business as usual. The people who ought to be closest to it, who ought to see it first are completely absent.
Trump is the flame that’s burning up global trust, but the Democrats are trying to negotiate with a fire.
“Fell for it”. Amazing how there is always a Leiberman in the punchbowl. No pattern to infer here, move along.
They got bought off again.
It’s not reasonable to do the ‘Both sides are the same!’ thing, as one side has masked fat guys killing people in the street without consequence - but it seems fair to say they’re shit and really nasty shit. You wouldn’t want to step in either.
It seems like a movement to primary all Democrats should have already started. Primaries could be two months out.
what? but the dems didn’t fold this time. the republicans did. they agree to leave dhs out of this bill. finally democrats did something good they are still catching strays?
They agreed to fund it for 2 weeks while they think about how they’re going to fund it for the remainder of the year.
