The Trump administration has announced that TSA employees will start receiving their paychecks on Monday, which is great, but if the situation is similar to previous government shutdowns, the executive branch does not have the resources to handle more than one pay period for TSA employees.
The Senate struck a deal and passed legislation to fund all other parts of DHS, except ICE and Border Patrol.
All Republicans in the House of Representatives had to do was not lose their collective spirit and put a stamp on it before they left.
Since these are Donald Trump and Mike Johnson’s House Republicans, they immediately went crazy, blew everything up, and are instead trying to get the Senate to pass a 60-day CR.
The problem is that the Senate has already left town for a two-week break for Easter.
Why did the Republicans in the House of Representatives decide to shoot themselves in both feet?
Let Speaker Mike Johnson explain:
This guess last night is a joke. I am quite convinced that it cannot be the case that every Republican in the Senate has read the language of this bill. And I’m going to read you one excerpt from it, because it’s quite alarming and everything you need to know is in part four. This is on page two of the bill.
This is, this is a fact. It is an actual copy of the bill that consists of that extract. There is, quote, the contents printed under the headings of this bill. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and border security operations under the umbrella of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and Protection have no force or effect for purposes of this Act.
An amount specified in the final bill under the subheading Border Security Operations and under the heading US Customs and Border Protection. And under the headings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Department of Homeland Security will be zero. We don’t, and I think it’s unconscionable that the Democrats would force some kind of negotiation at three in the morning and try to drum this up among the American people and then get on their plane and go home for their vacation and pretend and think that we would go along with that.
The idea of ​​major Republicans in the House of Representatives is to pass a sixty day CR to fund ICE and Border Patrol, but in reality that is not the idea of ​​Republicans in the House of Representatives. The idea came from Trump.
Here are Johnson’s not-so-subtle clues that this bit of madness is coming from Trump.
