Lawmakers are departing Washington on Thursday without a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security — all but ensuring a partial government shutdown at the end of the day Friday.
Why it matters: It would be the third shutdown of President Trump’s second term, with Democrats again seizing on government funding as one of their only points of leverage to confront the White House over its mass deportation program.
Despite two weeks of negotiating, Democrats said Thursday that they were no closer to a deal with Republicans to avert a shutdown. Democratic leaders are demanding reforms to ICE.
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Senate Democrats on Thursday rejected multiple attempts from GOP leaders to pass a short-term funding bill for DHS. Democrats have said they won’t vote for any DHS funding without ICE reforms.
But Republicans included $75 billion in funding for ICE in their massive reconciliation package last year, meaning the agency will still have funding despite the shutdown.
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