Sean CastenAnd there it is. DHS and TSA aren't getting paid because Trump doesn't want to pay them, and Thune & Johnson are too afraid to act like the leaders of co-equal branch they claim to be to call the vote and force the question.
ocdtrekkie@SeanCasten This is fine. Ain't us it looks bad for.
@SeanCasten "Trump also said he’d invite all the GOP senators and their families for Easter dinner at the White House. Some Republicans took that as a threat, not a reward."
Jeez, being a Republican must be weird right now.
Thomas Beagle@ocdtrekkie @SeanCasten Ah, the famous "Red Easter".
KimJohn "Picture of Supplication" Thune
disorganized tropical low@SeanCasten Please put alt text in images. If anything, I have higher expectations of this for public representatives. Information access for all is critical.
Flaming Cheeto@SeanCasten I'm also interpreting this to mean that if Congress passed that compromise with veto-proof margins that the executive branch still wouldn't cut the checks.
DB@SeanCasten tRump taking the ‘my way or the highway’ position, as is his want. Dems have to give up women’s voting rights to preserve GOP authoritarian power, ICe gets to shoot people in the streets or administer beat-downs. I hope the Senate doesn’t cave but I don’t trust them.
OmnivoreNews: With the DHS shutdown now in its 37th day, Senate Majority Leader John Thune approached Trump with a new proposal on Sunday at the urging of his Senate Republican colleagues and even some White House aides.
Thune told Trump that Senate Republicans would support funding all of DHS except ICE, the agency at the center of the bitter partisan dispute over Trump's immigration crackdown, according to senators and aides.
ICE funding could be handled later in a party-line reconciliation bill. Democrats would accept the offer, the South Dakota Republican informed the president.
Democrats wouldn't get some of their chief demands banning masks for federal agents or requiring judicial warrants if reconciliation were used. Plus, TSA agents would get their paychecks and the security-line madness at airports would end.
But Trump said no, according to multiple sources. The president wants Republicans to stay in D.C. and keep fighting with Democrats over DHS funding and the SAVE America Act, the GOP's voter ID and proof-of-citizenship bill.
Jack the Frosted Count@SeanCasten Shocked! shocked! etc.
tkissing@SeanCasten It's almost as if Trump is a de facto dictator...
*braces for moderates saying that language like that isn't appropriate, he hasn't even had the CIA push any opponent out of a window yet*
*braces for moderates saying that language like that isn't appropriate, he hasn't even had the CIA push any opponent out of a window yet*
Neil@SeanCasten President Dealz’ unmatched ability to think strategically strikes again. Oh well. Every ICE agent who’s stuck looking at boarding passes is one less in the streets murdering people.
PetterOfCats@gneilyo @SeanCasten they may just start deporting people in line though
@PetterOfCats @SeanCasten There's no situation an ICE agent can't make worse
Rupert V/
Kim Possible 
@SeanCasten They need to all stop showing up for work, since there's no guarantee they'll get back pay. I wouldn't trust that, and it's unfair. These folks deserve to get paid regularly as they work, and the opportunity to get different jobs if they can't trust the government.
Brian Nicar@kimlockhartga @SeanCasten Many of them have stopped showing up for work. Thus the insane lines and general disorder. Now there will be armed goofballs added to mix, who are also supposed to arrest any illegal on sight. I wonder how that will work or play out?
@wendigo @SeanCasten Not well. Not well.
This affects rich people at some point, doesn't it?
@kimlockhartga @SeanCasten Presumably, but who knows what scheme airlines will workout with Trump to insure well-heeled passengers don't miss their flight. Is there a loyalty card? ;>)
@wendigo @SeanCasten Ah. I know they discontinued the federal pre-check system, which saved me so much time. I don't really fly these days, tho. They have or had another system for frequent flyers to skip the longer line for security, by being pre-screened. I can't remember what it was. I think "Clear" like you are cleared for flight.
@kimlockhartga @SeanCasten I'll just tell them I know Jennifer Garner from the Capitol One Venture commercials... ;>)
william.maggosdidn't ICE get separate funding or are they just as unfunded as the TSA employees they are supposed to do the job of?
Skookumchick@SeanCasten Trump refusing to pay people? How out of character.