GOP Senator Suggests Trump Might Flip-Flop 24 Hours After Defiantly Rejecting GOP Compromise to End Shutdown
Source: MEDIAite
Mar 24th, 2026, 1:11 pm
Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said on Tuesday he believed President Donald Trump “may be on board” for a deal that would end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, accepting a deal he had rejected the day before.
Kennedy appeared on Tuesday’s episode of America’s Newsroom to discuss the latest developments with the standoff between Democrats and Republicans in Congress over funding for DHS, which has meant that TSA agents are working at the nation’s airports without being paid. Numerous agents who cannot afford to forgo their paychecks have been calling out, leaving travelers mired in hours-long security lines — including an NTSB investigator who was trying to get to the scene of a deadly runway crash at LaGuardia Airport.
On Monday, Kennedy confirmed reports Monday that there had been a deal on the table from Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) where the Democrats would agree to fund everything but ICE, so the TSA agents could get paid, but Trump killed that deal.
By Tuesday, however, Kennedy was saying that Trump might actually have changed his mind again, and was possibly now willing to support the deal and bring the shutdown to an end.
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