Don’t look now, but Democrats in the House and Senate have been on a huge winning streak in recent months. Democrats won the initial government shutdown and pushed health care to the top of the national priority list, a victory that still haunts Republicans.
Democrats scored a second victory when they got Republicans to pass four of five funding bills, but chose the Department of Homeland Security, which includes ICE.
Why Republicans would ever have agreed to this was bizarre, because the moment they agreed to the two-week CR, they put themselves in a box.
Like the health care impasse that continues beneath the surface, Democrats have not relented on their demands for what they need to deliver the necessary votes to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
After House Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries held a strategic meeting, Democrats emerged united in the House and Senate on a series of requirements that must be met before they will vote for any DHS funding.
The plot twist came Wednesday, when Schumer issued a new demand that some Democrats have already been calling for, and what Democrats want is a game-changer for the American people.
Read what this new requirement is below.
