BREAKING: DHS Funding Package FAILS in Senate — Will Likely Shut Down Tomorrow

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The Department of Homeland Security is scheduled to shut down tomorrow night after the Senate failed to advance a bill that would fund the agency.

Only one Democrat — Sen. John Fetterman — voted to pass it.

Now, Senators are already leaving Capitol Hill for a week-long break without getting it done.

Take a look:

BREAKING: The US Senate has just FAILED to advance the DHS funding bill, which means DHS will likely shutdown tomorrow night

Fetterman was the lone Democrat to vote in favor.

These idiots aren’t shutting down ICE, because ICE is FULLY FUNDED for the year.

They’re shutting down the Coast Guard, TSA, Cybersecurity agencies, and more. Democrats are putting our country at risk for PURE POLITICS.

Disgusting.

A couple weeks ago, the Senate passed a full-year funding package for the majority of federal agencies after Democrats briefly shut down the government because they refused to fund the DHS.

As a solution, the Senate opted to vote on funding the DHS separately.

Instead of reaching an agreement, Democrats doubled down on their ridiculous demands and are now causing another partial government shutdown.

Fox News reported:

Lawmakers are jetting from Washington, D.C., without a deal to prevent a partial government shutdown.

Their departure comes after the Senate was unable to send a full-year funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to President Donald Trump’s desk.

Senate Democrats doubled down on their demands for stringent reforms to immigration enforcement and bucked multiple attempts Thursday to keep the agency open.

With both chambers now on their way to a weeklong recess, the agency is expected to shutter at midnight Friday. Unless a deal is struck before lawmakers return, DHS will be shut down for at least that period of time.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., made the call to send lawmakers home and noted that if negotiations made a breakthrough, they would be on 24-hour notice to return. But talks, for now, are somewhere between baby steps and stuck.

“What it appears to me, at least at this point, is happening is the Democrats, like they did last fall, they really don’t want the solution,” Thune said. “They don’t want the answer. They want the political issue.”

Ironically, Democrats are shutting the whole thing down because of their “concerns” about immigration operations. However, ICE and Border Patrol will not be affected by this mess!

It’s only other agencies — like the TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard — that will be impacted.

This Fox News clip has more:

 

The reason that ICE and Border Patrol will not be shut down is because they were already given funding for the year through President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.

The Hill explained further:

The agencies that are the main targets of Democratic fury, however, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), will be able to continue operations without much disruption.

Both agencies received tens of billions of dollars through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which President Trump signed into law last year.

“Democrats have been very clear. We will not support an extension of the status quo, a status quo that permits masked secret police to barge into people’s homes without warrants, no guardrails, zero oversight from independent authorities,” Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said before the vote.

Schumer acknowledged that White House border czar Tom Homan announced Thursday that it was ending its surge deployment of ICE officers in Minnesota but declared the action falls short of what’s needed to prevent troubling incidents connected to law enforcement operations.

“We need legislation to rein in ICE and end the violence,” he said. “Without legislation, what Tom Homan says today could be reversed tomorrow on a whim from a Donald Trump.”

Senate appropriators say that TSA agents and federal workers at FEMA and the Coast Guard will be able to keep working in a “limited” capacity and are looking into what extent that federal operations will be limited.

Republican lawmakers predict that delays at airports may be the most immediate impact felt by the public.



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