Senate Democrats approved a deal early Friday morning that would fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, ensuring that Transportation Security Administration workers would get their long-awaited paychecks but forfeiting proposed reforms to immigration enforcement.
Senate Democrats and Republicans approved legislation that would fund most DHS agencies except Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol. The bill would restore funding to TSA, which has been hemorrhaging employees as paycheck after paycheck has gone unpaid, causing severe disruptions at airports across the country.
However, Democrats failed to secure key reforms to immigration enforcement including banning ICE agents from wearing masks and requiring them to obtain judicial warrants in order to perform searches.
“That ship has sailed, and they kind of kissed that opportunity goodbye,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune said.
He claimed that Democrats were more interested in having an issue to run on in the midterm elections on rather than passing reforms.
“We could be standing here now passing a funding bill with a list of reforms, if Democrats had made the smallest effort to actually reach an agreement,” Thune said. “But they didn’t.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he was proud of the Democrats for sticking together. “My caucus didn’t budge,” he said, adding that Democrats would “fight hard for reforms” and “there will be opportunities.”
It’s not clear whether those opportunities will arise before the midterm elections.
In the meantime, Republicans are planning to pass funding for ICE and Border Patrol as part of budget reconciliation, which will require a simple majority rather than the 60 votes this legislation required.
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