Democrats signal 2 more weeks of shutdown as GOP goes to war with itself over DHS funding
Democrats in the Senate signaled they would not vote for a funding bill that House Republicans floated as an alternative to bipartisan legislation passed by senators to end a partial government shutdown.
Early Friday, the Republican-controlled Senate approved a bill that would have funded all parts of the Department of Homeland Security except Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
House Republican leadership called the bill "garbage" and refused to allow a vote on the legislation. Instead, Republicans in the House floated a continuing resolution that would temporarily completely fund DHS.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) suggested that the House Republican proposal could not clear 60 votes in the Senate, which is not scheduled to be back in session for over two weeks.
"A 60 day CR that locks in the status quo is dead on arrival in the Senate, and Republicans know it," Schumer wrote on social media. "We’ve been clear from day one: Democrats will fund critical Homeland Security functions—but we will not give a blank check to Trump’s lawless and deadly immigration militia without reforms."