随着参议院共和党人周二在国土安全部部分关闭的情况下匆忙达成一项协议,为该机构提供资金,唐纳德·特朗普总统表示,他不会对他们达成的任何协议感到满意,对他是否会签署任何协议仍不置可否。
参议院民主党人也没有承诺支持共和党的提议。
“嗯,在我看到交易之前,我不想发表评论,但正如你所知,他们正在就交易进行谈判。我猜他们越来越接近了。但我认为他们达成的任何协议,我都很不满意,”特朗普在椭圆形办公室对记者说。有人问他是否会支持一项获得共和党支持的协议,该协议将为DHS除移民和海关执法行动以外的一切提供资金。
当被问及他是否会“对涉及将ICE资金与DHS资助计划分开的协议感到满意”以重开该机构时,Trump转移了话题,并表示正在达成协议。
“嗯,他们正在努力解决所有这些问题。你知道,这是他们稍后会解释的细节,”特朗普说,因为该部门的关闭已持续到第39天。
尽管一名白宫官员周二早些时候表示,“对话仍在进行,但这笔交易似乎可以接受。”
参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩(John Thune)周二早些时候表示,共和党人正在参议院推进一项在本财年剩余时间里为DHS提供资金的提案,但移民执法行动除外。
“这基本上是过去几天一直在进行的讨论。我认为最初与民主党人的提议,即为DHS预算的94%提供资金,作为ICE预算的一部分,由和解预先提供资金的55亿美元,将不包括在这笔交易中,”图恩对记者解释说。
参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默(Chuck Schumer)和民主党领导人没有承诺支持这项新的共和党提案,值得注意的是,几周来,民主党人一直要求剥离ICE资金,同时批准对DHS境内其他机构的拨款,如交通安全局、网络安全和基础设施安全局、联邦紧急事务管理局、特勤局和海岸警卫队。
在唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)总统去年夏天签署成为法律的“一个美丽的大法案”(One Big Beautiful Bill Act)中,ICE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。
民主主义者在明尼阿波利斯的联邦执法人员枪杀了Renee Good和Alex Pretti之后,他们阻止了DHS的资助并要求ICE进行改革。舒默现在表示,民主党人正在寻求就ICE改革进行额外的谈判,为DHS提供资金的零敲碎打的方法也应该包括移民执法改革。
“我们需要对ICE进行改革。我们需要控制暴力。我们从未改变我们的立场。这在ICE中没有任何改革,”舒默周二说。“我们将向他们发回一份提议,我可以向你保证,其中将包含重大改革。”
参议院共和党人说他们已经没有让步的余地了。
“这基本上是民主党人一直在要求的。所以我们将有机会对此进行投票,”图恩告诉记者。
目前尚不清楚特朗普周末要求共和党在没有通过他的投票和性别确认医疗立法的情况下,不要与民主党就DHS资金达成协议,这一要求是如何影响任何新兴协议的拯救美国法案.
这项立法将限制邮寄选票,要求在投票站出示带照片的身份证,并要求各州在登记个人在联邦选举中投票之前获得公民身份证明。特朗普在他希望在法律中看到的事情清单上增加了额外的条款:禁止变性女性参加女子体育运动和未成年人性别确认手术。
《拯救美国法》的条款也可能被纳入未来的和解法案,尽管没有什么是板上钉钉的,该立法可能不符合纳入和解方案的严格预算规则。
随着全国各地机场的队伍越来越长,包括TSA官员在内的数万名工作人员停薪留职,立法者面临的压力越来越大。参议员继续得到报酬。
特朗普派出的ICE特工现在驻扎在十几个地方全国的机场承担受部分关闭影响的美国运输安全管理局官员的部分职责。
尽管最近的这些进展标志着DHS融资协议几周来取得的最大进展,但距离达成协议还有很长的路要走。即使参议院同意并通过一项协议,它仍然需要回到众议院。
Trump says he's 'pretty much not happy' with any deal to reopen DHS as negotiations continue
As Senate Republicans on Tuesday scrambled to strike a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security amid the agency's partial shutdown, President Donald Trump said he would not be happy with any deal they hammered out, remaining noncommittal on if he would sign anything.
Senate Democrats aren't committing to supporting the GOP proposal, either.
"Well, I don't want to comment until I see the deal, but as you know, they're negotiating a deal. I guess they're getting fairly close. But I think any deal they make, I'm -- I'm pretty much not happy with it,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. He was asked if he would support a deal garnering Republican support that would fund everything in DHS except Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations.
When asked if he would be "comfortable with a deal that involves separating ICE funding from the DHS funding package" to reopen the agency, Trump deflected and said a deal was being worked on.
“Well, they're working on all of that. You know, that's a detail that they'll explain later,” Trump said, as the department's shutdown stretches into its 39th day.
This comes despite a White House official saying earlier Tuesday that "conversations are ongoing but this deal seems to be acceptable."
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said earlier Tuesday that Republicans were moving ahead in the Senate with a proposal to fund DHS -- except for immigration enforcement operations -- for the rest of the fiscal year.
"It's basically the discussion that's been held for the last couple days. I think the offer originally with the Democrats, and that is to fund 94% of the DHS budget, the $5.5 billion that was, as part of the ICE budget, that was pre-funded by reconciliation, would not be included in this deal,” Thune explained to reporters.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Democratic leaders are not committing to supporting this new GOP proposal -- noteworthy because Democrats, for weeks, have demanded stripping out ICE funding while approving appropriations for other agencies inside DHS like such as Transportation Security Administration, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Secret Service and the Coast Guard.
ICE has money to continue its operations, following a $75 billion cash infusion over five years in the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” that President Donald Trump signed into law last summer. ICE agents continue to be paid, while their other DHS colleagues are not.
Democratsare blocking DHS funding and demanding ICE reforms following the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal law enforcement in Minneapolis. Schumer now says Democrats are pursuing additional negotiations on ICE reforms and that the piecemeal approach to funding DHS should also include immigration enforcement reforms.
“We need reforms to ICE. We need to rein in the violence. We have never changed our position. This does not have any reforms in ICE,"Schumer said Tuesday. "We'll be sending them an offer back, and I can assure you, it'll contain significant reform in it."
Senate Republicans say they’re running out of concessions to offer.
"It's essentially what the Democrats have been asking for.And so we're going to have an opportunity to vote on that," Thune told reporters.
It's not yet clear how any emerging deal factors in to Trump's demand over the weekend that Republican not make a deal with Democrats on DHS funding without also passing his voting and gender-affirming care legislation, theSAVE America Act.
The legislation would restrict mail-in ballots, require photo ID at polling places and mandate that states obtain proof of citizenship before registering a person to vote in a federal election. Trump has tacked additional provisions onto the list of things he would like to see in the law: banning transgender women from playing in women’s sports and gender-affirming surgeries for minors.
SAVE America Act provisions could also be included in a future reconciliation bill, although nothing is set in stone, and the legislation may not meet strict budget rules to be included in a reconciliation package.
Pressure on lawmakers is mounting as lines grow at airports across the country and tens of thousands of workers, including TSA officers, go without pay. Senators continue to get paid.
ICE agents sent by Trump are now stationed at more than a dozenairports across the nationto assume some of the duties of TSA officers affected by the partial shutdown.
While these recent developments mark the most progress on a DHS funding deal in weeks, it's still a long way from a done deal. Even if the Senate agrees on a deal and passes it, it would still need to go back to the House.





