opposed giving more funding to Homeland Security<\/a> without reforms in a vote Thursday.<\/p>\nSchiff voted no because he said he promised to not \u201cgive another dime for ICE until we saw real reforms \u2014 and not just promised reforms but statutory requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to see those reforms before I am prepared to support any more funding for these agencies,\u201d Schiff said in a video message posted on X, and added that he did not see the White House acting in \u201cgood faith. \u201cI want it in writing and statute.\u201d<\/p>\n
After voting against the measure, Padilla said in a statement: \u201cI\u2019ve been clear from the beginning: No more money for ICE and CBP without real oversight and accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) told reporters Friday morning that Democrats will find out whether two weeks is enough time to reach a compromise.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will evaluate whether that is sufficient time,\u201d Jeffries said. \u201cBut there is urgency to dealing with this issue because ICE as we have seen is out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the absence of reforms in the Senate deal has already drawn concerns from some progressives, who argue the deal falls short of what is needed to rein in federal immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst of all, I\u2019m actually disappointed that Senate leadership is not right now demanding more,\u201d Rep. Robert Garcia, a top-ranking House Democrat from Long Beach, told reporters Friday. \u201cThis idea that we\u2019re somehow going to continue to fund this agency and somehow just extend the pain, I think is absolutely wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
Garcia said it was \u201coutrageous\u201d that the Senate deal would extend funding for Homeland Security for two weeks without any new requirements.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis idea that we\u2019re somehow not demanding immediately the removal of masks and body cameras and all the other reforms while eliminating this agency that\u2019s causing harm, I think, is outrageous,\u201d Garcia said.<\/p>\n
Democratic Rep. Judy Chu of Pasadena said in a statement that she had not yet decided whether to support the Senate deal once it reaches the House floor. <\/p>\n
But, Chu added: \u201cI cannot support legislation that increases funding to this agency while delivering no accountability measures.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rep. Kevin Calvert (R-Corona) said in a statement that it is \u201ccritical\u201d for lawmakers to pass the bipartisan spending package, in part because it included funding for the U.S. military. <\/p>\n
\u201cAs Chairman of the [House] Defense Appropriation Subcommittee, I\u2019m especially concerned about the negative impacts of a shutdown at a time when we have a buildup of American military assets in the Middle East,\u201d Calvert said.<\/p>\n
Calvert added that Homeland Security operations will continue even in the shutdown because lawmakers provided an influx of funding for the agency in last year\u2019s \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill.\u201d But he said he worried that any lapse in funding would affect other operations by the agency, including disaster funding and security assistance for major events, such as the upcoming World Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to get these priorities funded,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Other Republican lawmakers have already signaled the possible hurdles Democrats will face as they try to rein in ICE.<\/p>\n
Graham held up consideration of the Senate deal, in part because he wanted the Senate to vote to criminalize local and state officials in sanctuary cities \u2014 a term that has no strict definition but that generally describes local jurisdictions that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can convince me that ICE can be better, but I don\u2019t think I will ever convince you to abandon sanctuary cities because you\u2019re wedded to it on the Democratic side,\u201d Graham said.<\/p>\n
Graham also delayed passage of the deal because it included a repeal of a law that would have allowed senators \u2014 including himself \u2014 to sue the government if federal investigators gained access to their phones without notifying them. The law required senators to be notified if that were to happen and sue for up to $50,000 in damages per incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll fix the $500,000 \u2014 count me in \u2014 but you took the notification out,\u201d Graham said. \u201cI am demanding a vote on the floor of the United States Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Other Senate Republicans also expressed concern with Democrats\u2019 demands, even as Trump seemed to try appease them.<\/p>\n
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) said the demand for federal agents to remove their masks during operations was a \u201cclear and obvious attempt to intimidate and put our federal agents in harm\u2019s way.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen enforcement becomes dangerous for enforcers, enforcement does not survive,\u201d Schmitt said in a Senate floor speech. \u201cWhat emerges is not reform, it is amnesty by default.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the GOP opposition, most Senate Republicans were poised to join Democrats on Friday and vote for the deal. But there is no certainty that they will join the minority party when negotiations resume in the coming weeks. <\/p>\n
Recent history suggests that bipartisan support at the outset does not guarantee a lasting deal, particularly when unresolved policy disputes remain. The last government shutdown tied to a debate over healthcare exposed how quickly negotiations can collapse when no agreement is reached.<\/p>\n
In November, a small group of Democrats voted with Republicans to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history with the promise of negotiating an extension to healthcare tax credits that were set to expire in the new year. <\/p>\n
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), a former House speaker, reminded the public on Friday that Democrats were unable to get Republican support for extending the tax credits, resulting in increasing healthcare costs for millions of Americans.<\/p>\n
\u201cHouse Democrats passed a bipartisan fix, yet Senate Republicans continue to block this critical relief for millions of Americans,\u201d Pelosi wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n
Times staff writer Seema Mehta contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014\u00a0A budget impasse in Congress is poised to halt large swaths of federal operations early Saturday as lawmakers…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":555228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,3853,12039,7033,6523,36172,1258,17246,243086,2961,243085,224,5337,242435,24972,162091,13235,2452,5223],"class_list":["post-555227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-deal","tag-demand","tag-democrats","tag-federal-agency","tag-federal-immigration-agent","tag-funding","tag-homeland-security","tag-ice-negotiation","tag-la","tag-lawmaker-brace","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-partial-government-shutdown","tag-reform","tag-senate-democrats","tag-vote","tag-week","tag-white-house"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115987222719167551","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}