Donald Trump’s deportation agenda will now have billions of dollars to play with thanks to Republican handiwork.
The House GOP eked out $70 billion in funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection Tuesday evening through the budget reconciliation process, bypassing the need for any Democratic support. The Secure America Act’s final vote was 214–212. The…
"Hopefully they just continue to plod through and make improvements, get people the money they deserve and earned as quickly as possible," John Hatton said.
The legislation was first introduced in 2019 and a companion bill has been introduced in the House.
The Senate resolution will take effect after the general election on Nov. 3.
Lawmakers said the measure, approved Thursday. would discourage future funding standoffs after a series of record-breaking shutdowns.
There are a lot of things wrong with today’s Republican Party. They lie. They lie about how much they lie. They have handed their party and our democracy to a conscience-less kleptocrat, and they adulate him the way Russian communists once lionized Stalin (massive, Stalinesque banners of Trump now adorn at least two federal office buildings, the Justice
Department and the Department
of…
Under new leadership, the agency has reduced the role of field offices across the country and centralized its operations, making it harder for millions of Americans to get help with their benefits.
Insecurity about the midterms is rising—and Republicans are shoving some of the blame onto House Speaker Mike Johnson.
Concern is spreading that Johnson has “lost control of his conference,” creating an environment that is unlikely to pass meaningful legislation before the November elections, The Hill reported Monday.
North Dakota Senator Kevin Cramer warned that the caucus’s relentless…
"I think a lot of factors there went into this, but certainly not a real great moment here in Congress," said Mitchell Miller.
The lights are back on.
The House has voted to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security and bring an end to the longest agency shutdown in history. The bipartisan package had already passed the Senate and it now goes to President Donald Trump. The Trump administration had warned that temporary funds to pay Transportation Security Administration and other personnel would “soon run out” if Congress failed to act.…
"We have seen a lapse in prompt payments of DHS invoices that dates back well before the shutdown, all the way back to last summer," said Stephanie Kostro.
The Senate voted to adopt a budget plan that would fund ICE and Border Patrol over Democratic objections.
Last week, Coast Guard leaders told Congress there’s a growing backlog of 18,000 merchant mariner credentials due to the shutdown.
Plankey asked to be withdrawn, saying "it has become clear" the Senate won't confirm him after 13 months since his initial nomination to be CISA director.
The Senate voted on Tuesday to launch a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security and end the current shutdown.
Employees at the Department of Homeland Security are weeks away from losing their paychecks.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told Fox News Tuesday that the agency’s funding has all but run dry, 66 days into the partial government shutdown.
Donald Trump signed a memorandum earlier this month that authorized the release of $10 billion in emergency funds from the 2025 One Big…
"President Trump has set a June 1st deadline to say, look, we've got to get all of this done, including homeland security," said Mitchell Miller.
The DHS shutdown is leading to unpaid utility bills at the Coast Guard, a vacuum of cyber planning activities at CISA, and grounded aircraft at CBP.
President Donald Trump and the conservative think tanks that inspire his policies want to privatize the Transportation Security Administration screeners who check your bags and bodies before you fly. It’s been a goal of theirs since Trump’s first term—the Heritage Foundation has been banging on about it since at least 2017—but they’ve re-upped the call amid Congress’s stalemate over Department of…
The cancellation is yet another setback for CyberCorps scholars, who have struggled to find roles in government since the start of the Trump administration.
DHS is recalling thousands of employees who have been furloughed since Feb. 14 under the partial government shutdown.
So much for Donald Trump’s “Golden Age.” It looks like the United States’ economic growth is officially in free fall.
Between October and December, the United States’ real gross domestic product fell from 4.4 percent to just 0.5 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reported Thursday.
That figure is significantly less than the agency’s second estimate of 0.7 percent growth, reported…
DHS employees are set to receive back pay through April 4 thanks to re-directed funding, but future paychecks likely depend on Congress ending the shutdown.
While President Trump threatens complete annihilation in Iran, congressional Republicans are in complete disarray at home.
On Tuesday, the House Freedom Caucus announced that they actually opposed the Trump-approved two-pronged plan to end the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. The plan, which House Speaker Mike Johnson and House Majority Leader John Thune announced…
President Donald Trump wants to cut more than $1.5 billion—and thousands of jobs—from the Transportation Security Administration’s budget after subjecting its employees to weeks without pay.
The Trump administration wants to gut 9,400 workers from the 60,000-person agency, according to budget documents reviewed Monday by Reuters.
The 2027 White House budget suggests small airports to rely on…
Democrats are claiming victory. But what did they really gain?
Despite Speaker Mike Johnson claiming on Wednesday that he’d accept the Senate’s bipartisan deal to end the government shutdown, House Republicans adjourned the next day without putting any such bill to a vote, dragging out the shutdown for even longer.
House Republicans refuse to pass a Senate-backed bill to fund TSA and the Coast Guard, adjourning session through Easter weekend and extending…
Mike Johnson and John Thune said Republicans will return to a Senate plan to fund most of the department through an agreement with Democratic senators.
Employees across CISA, FEMA and the Coast Guard, as well as civilian employees at ICE and CBP, are still not being paid during the shutdown.