Record DHS Shutdown: Senate GOP Moves to Use Reconciliation to Fund ICE and Border Patrol Without Democrats
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A record-long DHS shutdown has snarled airport security as unpaid and absent TSA officers fueled long lines and resignations, prompting President Trump to deploy ICE agents to airports for ID checks, exits and crowd control and to issue orders to restore TSA—and later broader DHS—pay. Simultaneously Senate Republicans, under pressure from Trump, adopted a two-track strategy to pass near-full DHS funding while moving ICE and Border Patrol funding into reconciliation to be enacted without Democratic votes, a plan that has provoked GOP infighting and remains opposed by Democrats who demand operational reforms.