>>1510941 (Cont)
From the start, Democrats objected to funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, the two agencies under DHS that have led the charge in enforcing Mr. Trump's immigration crackdown. Democrats pushed for reforms to the agencies' operations, including banning the use of face masks and requiring warrants for certain immigration-related arrests.

But talks over those reforms failed in the Senate. In the dead of night last month, the chamber unanimously passed legislation to fund the rest of the department, setting ICE and Border Patrol aside.

But House Republicans rejected that plan, arguing that the bill would be caving to Democratic demands to defund the president's immigration agenda.

Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune and President Trump eventually coalesced around a plan to fund the entirety of DHS on two parallel tracks. The first would involve the House passing the Senate DHS bill to immediately reopen the department. The second involves funding ICE and Border Patrol for the next three years through the budget reconciliation process, which will allow Republicans to approve a bill without support from Senate Democrats.

The president ordered DHS to redirect money to pay employees in March, but Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin warned that funding to make payroll would dry up by the beginning of May, increasing pressure on lawmakers to pass the Senate bill.

House leaders had been waiting for the reconciliation process to move forward before bringing up the Senate legislation. Both chambers took the first step toward crafting the reconciliation package this week, adopting a budget plan that instructs the relevant committees to write legislation to fund the immigration agencies.

>>1510941 (Cont)
"We held the homeland bill, the underlying funding bill, because we had to ensure that they could not isolate and eliminate those two critical agencies," Johnson told reporters after Thursday's vote. "We are getting those done now. We passed the resolution first. That was critically important for us to do, to ensure that we're going to protect the homeland, even though Democrats are unwilling to do it. So now that that box is checked, we're allowed then to proceed and go through with the rest of it."

Mr. Trump has said he wants the reconciliation package on his desk by June 1.

Both ICE and Border Patrol received tens of billions of dollars in funding in last year's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, meaning their operations have continued mostly unimpeded during the shutdown. Law enforcement agents at both agencies have continued to get paid.

The brunt of the funding lapse has thus been felt by other DHS components like the Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration and Federal Emergency Management Agency. Adm. Kevin Lunday, the commandant of the Coast Guard, told CBS News in an exclusive interview that his workforce was "furious" that the impasse had dragged on so long, calling it "incredibly frustrating."

OTHER SOURCES:
>https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/04/30/dhs-funding-shutdown-house/
>https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/congress-expected-end-record-75-day-partial-government-shutdown-rcna342903

>>1510941
ICE weren’t affected because they’d been given their own funding earlier, iirc in the big beautiful bill. ICE is basically overfunded

>>1510945
Which makes Repubs letting the entire rest of DHS get fucked even stupider; they decided to hold up funding for airport security and FEMA because ICE wouldn't be paid, even though ICE was ALREADY getting paid.

>>1510947
It’s the MAGA way to never, ever, EVER concede. Never back down, never compromise, no matter what. It sounds impressive to weak people.

>>1510947
If they were smarter they would’ve had ICE take over all the work of those unfunded agencies, there’s ways it could’ve been achieved

>>1510949
Considering the general stupidity of the average ICE agent? Shit would've gotten them defunded completely; the more visible this agency is the worse their PR becomes.

>>1510959
That’s a recruitment issue, they made a mistake in ideology based recruiting

>>1510967
Bit too late now. Plus I'm guessing anyone outside that ideology sees the writing on the wall and realizes an ICE job will become a black spot on their record when this admin is over.

>>1510967
It wasn’t a mistake. ICE was and is working as intended.

>>1510968
>Eliminate all means to legally remove browns while they're still alive
>Be surprised when the only option left is the gas chamber
I don't think this is quite the victory that you were hoping for, Anon. People are still gonna get what they want and need, which in this case is for the minorities to leave. Its just that now they have to leave in a box because there's no means to deport them while they're still breathing.

>>1510971
Yeah I'm sure openly advocating for an ethnic cleansing as "common sense" is really gonna help your case at the next election. Please try not to sob and piss yourself too much when ICE agents start getting tried for human rights violations in a few years.

>>1510949
These recruits are people who didnt already have a career before ICE. They are retards who couldnt cut it in a job that has standards

>>1510971
Quit larping as far-right, you're embarrassing yourself.

>>1510969
It was a mistake because if they’d hire useful people they’d be able to take over all those other agencies and ICE could be running everything. They literally just hired whoever they could find that would agree with the ideology

>>1510971
you better not complain when anyone calls you a nazi

>>1510967
It's also greed based recruiting with an intelligence filter set to weed out anyone above a 90 or so.
That $50k bonus? That comes in $10k chunks per year, taxable, and if they leave the agency for any reason before they get the last chunk, they have to pay it all back for the full pre-tax amount. They could go 4 years, get $28~k, then get fired or laid off and owe the government $40k. Only the most ideologically motivated or stupid would take that deal.

Forcing Republicans to burn reconciliation on this is a win.

>>1510993
You'd figure with their massive budget increase they could afford to just do it outright with no strings attached. But of course it's entirely in-character for Trump to put every possible hidden clause and loophole that could make it so he doesn't have to pay someone, so he probably just did it reflexively.

>>1511011
They could, but why? What’s in it for them to not cheat their own people? They’re untouchable, and the rubes are going to keep voting for them anyway.

>>1511013
This is Trump we're talking about. He's got a psychological compulsion to not reimburse people.

>>1511015
I don’t think it’s anything like that, he just has no honor or integrity whatsoever.
Like, Trump says he’ll pay you to do a thing. You do the thing, go to get paid, and he doesn’t. Why would he? You already did the thing, he already got what he wanted, why would he give you money for nothing? That’s how his mind works.
The entirety of MAGA leadership is like this.

>>1510947
>>1510948
>Its Republicans fault that Democrats refused to pass a funding bill

>>1511038
>Republicans control all 3 branches of government and have openly said they want democrats to be a permanent minority party
>It's their fault the republicans can't pass anything if it doesn't give more money and power to the Epstein class.

>>1511038
Republicans are literally so adverse to any form of compromise they let the entire DHS go unfunded for almost three months for the sake of ICE funding ICE ALREADY FUCKING HAD.

>>1511041
Yes. 60 votes are required to clear the filibuster. Democrats would not vote to fund DHS, hence, they are the responsible party.

>>1511043
>Democrats defunded DHS for three months because they wanted to stop ICE, who are fully funded
Genius.

>>1511044
republicans could easily kill off the filibuster like trump keeps screaming, but they don't. So this is entirely on republicans being dysfunctional

>>1511045
>its Republicans fault for not changing the rules because Democrats wont fund DHS

>>1510948
>It’s the MAGA way to never, ever, EVER concede.
What do we get in return for "conceding"?

>>1511044
>Democrats would not vote to fund DHS, hence, they are the responsible party.
Democrats stated multiple times they would not fund ICE due to their actions in Minnesota. They repeatedly tried to push bills that funded everything else that Republicans blocked basically out of pure spite because they'd already funded ICE. It took them 76 days to finally fund everything else out of pure pettiness that they didn't want to concede anything to dems.

>>1511049
Well in this case, funding for the rest of DHS.

>>1511050
>Yes, dems did not want to fund DHS
Why are you arguing with me then?

>>1511051
>conceding is we get what we want and you get nothing
>omg why wont you concede

>>1511053
Republicans don't want the rest of DHS to have funding?

>>1511054
We would love to fund DHS, alas Democrats wouldnt vote to fund it.

>>1511052
Dems did not want to fund ICE specifically after they murdered 2 people. The fact it took Republicans 76 days to agree to that one request, EVEN THOUGH THEY ALREADY GAVE ICE FULL FUNDING ANYWAY, was done purely out of spite and an inability to even comprehend compromise.

>>1511055
>We would love to fund DHS, alas Democrats wouldnt vote to fund it.
Funny because they repeatedly sent funding bills forward that just cut out ICE, which is already funded anyway, and Republicans rejected it for almost 3 months until they finally realized how stupid it was.

>>1511054
Acting like a child doesn't persuade or impress anyone. Democrats wouldn't pass the funding package, so its their shutdown. The terms they offered to fund DHS were obviously unacceptable as they would kneecap immigration enforcement so there was never going to be a deal. Behave like you have an ounce of masculinity in you and own it.

>>1511046
Yes, it's the Republicans fault.
You got it.

>>1511058
>that just cut out ICE
ICE is part of DHS.

>and Republicans rejected it for almost 3 months until they finally realized how stupid it was.
No, they just figured out a solution. They are going to fund ICE via a reconciliation and they are setting aside $70B for ICE, which is 7x its usual budget. Congratulations on achieving nothing, and fucking over DHS in the process.

>>1511060
>Prevent Republicans passing a spending bill
>You did this
Toddler politique.

>>1511059
>The terms they offered to fund DHS were obviously unacceptable as they would kneecap immigration enforcement so there was never going to be a deal.
How does it kneecap them when Republicans were bragging they already had funding and this would do nothing to ICE?

Also, Republicans did finally accept Dem terms and gave them exactly what they wanted lmao.

>>1511061
>They are going to fund ICE via a reconciliation and they are setting aside $70B for ICE, which is 7x its usual budget.
Not they're not lol. They're considering it; the same way they "considered" extending health insurance tax credits.

>>1511063
>How does it kneecap them
You're asking how not funding the USCG and other DHS departments kneecaps DHS? We just heard that USCG stations lost power and utilities because they couldn't pay bills.

> finally accept Dem terms and gave them exactly what they wanted lmao.
They accepted none of the Democrats demands for ICE reforms, and are now going to give ICE the biggest funding package in its history. Literally nothing was achieved by the shutdown.

>>1511062
>Utterly fail to compromise at all and expect the other party to approve your bills even when they have multiple issues with it
>"IT'S ALL THEIR FAULT I CAN'T GOVERN!"

>>1511064
>Not they're not lol. They're considering it;
Cope however you must. Its a reconciliation, we can do whatever the fuck we want and Dems cant stop us.

>>1511066
>compromise
What do we get for this "compromise"?

>>1511067
>Its a reconciliation
Which they could've done anyway without all this drama, thus meaning Republicans literally kept DHS unfunded for 3 months for no fucking reason.

>we can do whatever the fuck we want and Dems cant stop us.
Except fund DHS apparently. Welcome to the basics of governing; you actually have to compromise or nothing will ever get done.

Oh, and btw; the Republican majority isn't surviving midterms. Have fun watching ICE lose their budget in 6 months.

>>1511068
DHS having funding. Amazing how Repubs have all 3 branches and still blame dems for their inability to govern.

>>1511069
>thus meaning Republicans literally kept DHS unfunded for 3 months for no fucking reason.
Democrats left DHS unfunded for three months for no reason. Republicans voted to fund it every single time.
>Except fund DHS apparently.
Its funded, and the GOP is prepping the biggest ICE spending package in history.
>compromise
What do we get for this "compromise"?
>the Republican majority isn't surviving midterms.
Thats why we're prepping to give ICE 7 years of budget.

>>1511062
>Have majority to pass a bill
>Don't
Yup, republicans fault.

>>1511070
>compromise is that we get what we want and you get nothing
>omg why wont you compromise
Are you actually a toddler?

>>1511072
>majority to pass a bill
>in the Senate
Non-American detected.

>>1511071
>Its funded,
And ICE is not. Why are you acting like they didn't literally pass the Democrat package?

>What do we get for this "compromise"?
What did you literally just get?

>Thats why we're prepping to give ICE 7 years of budget.
Yeah good luck getting that passed. You don't survive midterms and neither does ICE's budget.

>>1511073
>I don't understand how to govern and I'm not going to learn now!
I'm sure the 76 days of tantrum over ICE not getting funding while bragging about how they have funding really endeared you to voters. It's gonna be so fun watching your little thug club get disbanded.

>>1511077
>And ICE is not
Its very much funded due to the BBB
>What did you literally just get?
Nothing. So what do we get if we "compromise"?
>Yeah good luck getting that passed.
Reconciliation is planned to be done by July 1.
>You don't survive midterms and neither does ICE's budget.
As I said, they are giving them $70B. ICE's usual annual budget is ~$10B.

Congratulations on accomplishing nothing.

>>1511078
>I don't understand what a "compromise" is

>>1511078
>It's gonna be so fun watching your little thug club get disbanded.
Three million deportations (forced and voluntary) since Jan 2025. If we can keep this up, there will be no need to have ICE in three years.

>>1511079
>Its very much funded due to the BBB
So it's funding in this bill doesn't matter and Republicans refused to fund the rest of DHS for no reason?

>Reconciliation is planned to be done by July 1.
lmao yeah right. And COVID was gonna be gone by March. Trump's timetables never amount to much. Oh, and even if they do get that funding, you bet your ass it's getting taken back when Democrats regain control in November.

>>1511081
In three years ICE agents are gonna be homeless drunks or overdosed bodies on the side of the road. You're not popular and the trials for the numerous human rights violations are gonna be fun to see.

>>1511082
>So it's funding in this bill doesn't matter and Republicans refused to fund the rest of DHS for no reason?
Funding matters. Just because Republicans solved the problem Democrats created, does not mean they didn't create a problem.
>you bet your ass it's getting taken back when Democrats regain control in November.
That would require 51 Senate votes, which dems will not be getting in November.

>>1511083
>You're not popular and the trials for the numerous human rights violations are gonna be fun to see.
You're not American.

>>1511084
>That would require 51 Senate votes, which dems will not be getting in November.
Lmao yes they are. You guys have fucked up so badly you lost Trump's home district. Even hard red districts are becoming unsafe because Republicans have proven they can't govern and can't reign in Trump from doing retarded shit like starting wars in the middle east.

>>1511086
>you lost Trump's home district
Democrats will win the Senate because of the outcome of a special election in race for the state legislature?

All the models, and polling, suggests Republicans will hold the Senate.

>>1511087
>All the models, and polling, suggests Republicans will hold the Senate.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

OH

OH MY FUCKING SIDES

>>1511074
>Reconciliation
>End the filibuster
The election tourists aren't sending their best.