参议院民主党领袖查克·舒默(Chuck Schumer)周一表示，国土安全部与白宫和共和党人正在进行的资金谈判是“建设性的”，但强调“还有很多工作要做”。
舒默在整个周末的谈判结束后表示:“我们准备今天与白宫会面，继续谈判。”。“事实上，我们本打算今天上午会见(边境沙皇)汤姆·霍曼，但显然白宫因为唐纳德·特朗普的脾气暴躁而取消了那次会晤。”
舒默表示，特朗普正试图“破坏谈判”，因为立法者正在努力达成一项协议，以结束DHS的部分关闭，因为全国各地的机场都在排队，包括运输安全管理局官员在内的数万名工人没有工资。
舒默表示，特朗普在周末指示共和党人在没有通过他的投票和性别确认医疗立法的情况下，不要与民主党人就DHS资金达成协议，特朗普是支付TSA工作人员的“绊脚石”拯救美国法案.
舒默周一在参议院表示:“拯救法案没有足够的票数通过这个议院，民主党人将为此奋斗到底。”。“拯救法案与DHS国土安全无关。这与运输安全管理局的工作人员无关，也与确保ICE遵守美国其他联邦执法机构的规则无关。”
周一在孟菲斯举行的一次以犯罪为主题的圆桌会议上，特朗普表示，他“强烈建议共和党”避免“在任何事情上达成任何协议”。
“不要与民主党和解，让他们从自己埋下的这个洞里出来。你必须得到参议院的投票批准。你需要投票才能批准，”特朗普说，并再次呼吁参议院废除他们的60票阻挠，以简单多数通过立法。
特朗普鼓励共和党人在即将到来的休会期间留在城里，以达成一项协议:“不要担心复活节，回家。”
参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩(John Thune)周一表示，谈判形势非常不稳定，希望在未来两天内会变得更加明朗。
周一的事态发展是在特朗普周日拒绝了一项潜在出口匝道据接受美国广播公司新闻采访的多名消息人士称，白宫和参议院共和党领导人之间的对话导致DHS政府关闭。
消息人士称，特朗普周日否决了对该部门内部每个机构的资助——除了移民和海关执法局。
参议院共和党人表示担心，这种做法可能会让民主党人在谈判中占据上风，并对移民和海关执法局在移民执法之外发挥的关键作用产生影响，比如国土安全调查.
一位熟悉此次对话的消息人士告诉美国广播公司新闻，在图恩和总统周日打电话之前，白宫助手已经向特朗普介绍了拟议的DHS匝道，希望这一提议可以打破迄今为止已经持续了38天的僵局。
参议院民主党人-他们正在阻止DHS基金，并要求ICE改革-已经多次尝试但未能通过立法资助部门内部的机构，不包括移民执法部门。
参议院再次未能推进DHS拨款法案
据消息人士透露，民主党的努力受到了共和党领导层的阻挠，他们公开主张一切都应该立即获得资金，尽管他们私下里讨论了一个不同的计划。
但随着全国各地机场的混乱逐渐显现——包括特朗普的机场周末发布公告他将从周一开始派ICE特工到机场协助TSA官员，一些参议院共和党人人说他们已经看够了。
“民主党愿意开放DHS的所有商品，除了冰块。我想我们应该接受这一点，”共和党参议员约翰·肯尼迪周日下午告诉记者。“就在第二天，我们应该提交一份预算决议，以便在我们认为适当的时候调整资金冻结。我们不需要民主党投票来做到这一点。”
随着部分关闭的持续，在特朗普去年夏天签署成为法律的“一个美丽的大法案”中，ICE在五年内注入了750亿美元的现金，从而有资金继续运营。ICE的特工继续领薪水，而他们在DHS的其他同事却没有。
众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯(Hakeem Jeffries)和他的174名普通民主党人签署了一份出院请愿书，该请愿书将迫使议长迈克·约翰逊考虑一项为除ICE以外的所有DHS提供资金的法案。总共需要218个签名才能被考虑。
一名高级国会助手强调，共和党领导人正在探索多种选择。
议员们对DHS融资谈判正在取得“进展”表示乐观，特别是在参议员本周末被迫留在城里进行一系列不相关的投票之后。
Schumer calls DHS funding talks 'constructive' but says Trump trying to 'sabotage negotiations'
Sen. Chuck Schumer, the chamber's top Democrat, said Monday that the ongoing Department of Homeland Security funding negotiations with the White House and Republicans have been "constructive," but emphasized that "there’s considerably more work to be done."
"We're ready to meet with the White House today to keep talking," Schumer said after talks occurred all weekend."In fact, we were going to meet this morning with [Border Czar] Tom Homan, but apparently the White House pulled that meeting because of Donald Trump's temper tantrum."
Schumer said Trump is trying to "sabotage negotiations" as lawmakers work to hammer out a deal to end the DHS partial shutdown, as lines grow at airports across the country and tens of thousands of workers, including Transportation Security Administration officers, go without pay.
Schumer said Trump “is the one standing in the way” of paying TSA workers after he directed Republicans over the weekend to not make a deal with Democrats on DHS funding without also passing his voting and gender-affirming care legislation, theSAVE America Act.
"The SAVE Act does not have the votes to pass this chamber, and Democrats will fight it every step of the way," Schumer said on the Senate floor Monday. "The SAVE Act has nothing to do with DHS Homeland Security. It has nothing to do with TSA workers or making sure ICE follows the same rules as every other federal law enforcement agency in the country."
During a crime-focused roundtable in Memphis on Monday, Trump said he is "suggesting strongly to the Republican Party" to avoid making "any deal on anything."
"Do not settle with Democrats and let them out of this hole that they buried themselves in. You have to take the votes in the Senate to approve. You need votes to approve," Trump said, also repeating his calls for the Senate to abolish their 60-vote filibuster to pass the legislation with a simple majority.
Trump encouraged Republicans to stay in town for the upcoming recess to hammer out a deal: "Don't worry about Easter, going home."
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Monday that the negotiations are a very fluid situation, which will hopefully become more clear in the next two days.
Monday's developments come after Trump on Sunday rejected apotential off-rampto the DHS shutdown after conversations between the White House and Senate Republican leaders, according to multiple sources who spoke with ABC News.
Trump on Sunday shot down funding every agency inside the department -- except Immigration and Custom Enforcement, according to the sources.
Senate Republicans expressed concern the approach could give Democrats the upper hand in negotiations and have an impact on critical roles that ICE plays in addition to immigration enforcement, like the work done byHomeland Security Investigations.
A source familiar with the conversation told ABC News that White House aides had briefed Trump on the proposed DHS off-ramp before a phone call between Thune and the president on Sunday, hoping that the pitch could break the impasse that has stretched on for 38 days so far.
Senate Democrats -- who are blocking DHS funding and demanding ICE reforms -- haverepeatedly tried and failed to pass legislationto fund agencies inside the department, excluding immigration enforcement.
Democrats' efforts have been blocked by Republican leadership who have publicly argued everything should be funded at once -- despite debating a different plan behind closed doors, according to sources.
But as the chaos unravels at airports across the country -- including Trump'sannouncement over the weekendthat he would send ICE agents to airports starting on Monday to assist TSA officers, some Senate Republicans say they have seen enough.
"The Democrats are amenable to opening up everything in DHS but ICE. I think we should accept that,"Republican Sen. John Kennedy told reporters Sunday afternoon. "The very next day, we should file a budget resolution to reconciliation that funds ICE as we deem appropriate. We don't need Democratic votes to do that."
As the partial shutdown drags on, ICE has money to continue its operations, following a $75 billion cash infusion over five years in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that Trump signed into law last summer. And ICE agents continue to be paid, while their other DHS colleagues are not.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and 174 of his rank-and-file Democrats have signed onto a discharge petition that would force Speaker Mike Johnson to consider a bill to fund all of DHS, minus ICE. It requires 218 signatures in total to be considered.
A top congressional aide stressed that Republican leaders are exploring a number of options.
Lawmakers have expressed optimism that “progress” is being made in DHS funding talks, particularly after senators were forced to stay in town this weekend for an unrelated series of votes.
