Senate GOP-backed deal to end DHS shutdown draws extensive fire
A proposal endorsed Monday by President Trump to end the 40-day shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is taking fire from Democrats and conservative Senate Republicans, delaying a possible vote to reopen the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and other critical agencies.
The proposal to fund most of DHS but put off funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) removal operations appeared to have momentum, but that changed on Tuesday when critics in both parties panned it.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a rising conservative star, criticized the proposal during the Senate Republican lunch Tuesday for effectively cutting ICE’s budget and said he would not vote for it, according to sources familiar with the meeting.
“I’m skeptical about voting to defund or to cut ICE funding,” he said after the meeting. “I would hope that we’re not going to be asked to do that. I do not want to vote to defund ICE. I don’t want to vote to cut ICE funding. I want ICE to be fully funded.”
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