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Deal calls for splitting a funding bill for DHS from a package of other funding bills

Senators have reached a deal to advance a major package of spending bills to avert a partial government shutdown that was set to begin on Saturday.

The office of Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat, confirmed the deal calls for splitting a funding bill for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from a package of other funding bills, and that the deal would fund DHS for two weeks at its current levels.

The deal would avert a partial shutdown that would have affected many of the government’s functions. The House, which is out of session, would have to approve the revised package. The government’s current spending authorizations expire after Friday, while the House in not back until Monday.

The Senate could vote on the deal as soon as Thursday evening. In the House, speaker Mike Johnson, told the Associated Press that he had been “vehemently opposed” to breaking up the funding package, but “if it is broken up, we will have to move it as quickly as possible. We can’t have the government shut down.”

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[–] BC_viper@lemmy.world 152 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Man can't wait to see them shut it down for 2 weeks to then get absolutely nothing for it again.

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 87 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They don't want to even dismantle ICE all they wanna do is change who's in charge.

I fucking wish we had an opposition party in America

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah why do they think he won't just put some other asshole in there?

These people all need to go. This is a shit government and it should be ended if they aren't working for us anymore

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 weeks ago

They would settle for simply doing more training or identification. You know things they try with the police which has been extremely effective at wasting more money

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No one’s going to lose SNAP benefits tho. And DC workers will be paid.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 2 weeks ago

Come on. Neither of those things were supposed to happen last time either. Holding back the SNAP benefits and not paying DC workers were both patently breaking the law and how it's structured and every agency bent over and did it for Trump anyway.

Sick of people pretending that they won't do the cruel shit because "it's not allowed." They keep doing it and getting away with it even though it's not allowed!

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Last time was over a month

[–] BC_viper@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yah sure. But no way they will stay strong enough for that again.

[–] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 50 points 2 weeks ago

They'll cave. They aren't doing this because they think it's the right thing to do, they're doing it to keep their jobs. They weren't even interested in the idea of blocking DHS funding until the uproar about the latest ICE murder was louder than they anticipated, so now they'll act like they care, at least for a couple weeks until they cave.

Idiot spineless assholes.

[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 49 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Chuck Schumer is a fascist collaborator. I’m so tired of the presumption that he will ever represent any kind of opposition to the republican fascist project.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

We need a left version of fuckface McConnell. Someone who pushes the agenda of the people and ever backs down. He'll propose crazy shit like 5 year maternity leave and negotiate down to 1 year.

That's what we need. What we have right now is assholes that just provide stop gaps for the evil. They never roll any of this shit back.

DHS, ICE all this shit was shoved through by W and his war criminals and Democrats never pushed back.

[–] Akh@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Headline is straight up lies. They literally said they would fund DHS on a temporary basis to buy time to discuss ICE reforms

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Let's fund it so we have more time to stop funding it!

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

And it works, look at the comment you replied to and how many people think it's a good point.

[–] TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.works 27 points 2 weeks ago

Holy shit the democrats are a joke

[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 weeks ago

Reforms? No. Abolish ICE and the entire DHS.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 18 points 2 weeks ago

The office of Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat, confirmed the deal calls for splitting a funding bill for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from a package of other funding bills, and that the deal would fund DHS for two weeks at its current levels.

There's the spineless Democrats that we all know and love.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

He will do as Israel commands

[–] Biffsbraincell@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 weeks ago

Body cameras are going to help make us safer, they wouldn't want their murders caught on camera. You can tell that by the way one of them took the trouble to use his cell phone to film him murdering a woman. Ohhhh...

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Fucking worthless Democrats.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 11 points 2 weeks ago

So great to have the Dems help calibrate the goon squad to be more palatable to the public.

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

A DHS funding package that Democrats in the house passed to get in front of the Senate.

All of this is nothing more than a complete failure of democratic leadership.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Does the DHS funding also require 60 votes? Or is that gonna just be a majority vote that Dems can be like “sEe iTs NoT us!”?

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, good. Now don't compromise

[–] santa@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 weeks ago

Sadly they will do neither, just use it for fundraising

[–] uberdroog@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Shut it all down for as long as we need. Stop shopping for anything but essentials. Update your W2 and stop paying income taxes. Put that change into an overseas avings account, JIK. Every strategic day at work...PTO...every AI project....drag it out and produce terrible results. Oooohhhh we should all take out money out of the banks...cash out your 401ks ....this is not just going to fade away. People need to start to prepare for what comes next.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Why the fucking fuck does that shitty government always shut down?

It seems like only weeks ago it was shut down to get rid of the free/cheap(lol) healthcare.

This is pathetic. A government should never shut down, it's not a fucking burger van. Jesus.

[–] Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yet we're still supposed to support these old jackasses who refuse to just drop dead where they'll find better use as maggot food.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago