The partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security entered its sixth week on Friday with no end in sight after House Republicans flatly rejected a last-ditch Senate proposal that would have funded most of the agency while carving out Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.
Speaker Mike Johnson made clear the House would not be jammed into accepting what he called a “gambit” cooked up in the middle of the night. Instead, the House will move forward with a clean 60-day continuing resolution that restores full funding across the department, buying time for negotiations but refusing to surrender on core enforcement priorities.
Finally…a spine!