Wildfires and Disaster Response

The Senate advanced a bipartisan framework to restore most DHS funding — reportedly about 94% of the department while carving out ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (withholding roughly $5.5 billion) — but the package largely fails to enshrine the statutory ICE/CBP reforms Democrats had insisted on (warrant requirements, bans on masks, visible ID, body cams and other oversight tied to Minneapolis killings). The move comes amid a partial DHS shutdown of more than a month that has left tens of thousands of TSA officers unpaid, with hundreds quitting and sick‑out rates spiking, producing hours‑long airport lines and checkpoint closures while negotiators weigh reconciliation to fund ICE later and President Trump presses to tie any deal to his SAVE America voter‑ID bill.