Democratic senators come out in opposition to funding DHS, raising the risk of another government shutdown next week

[ancianita]

Source: AP

BY MICHELLE L. PRICE

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto said Saturday that she too would not vote for legislation in the Senate that would fund the Department of Homeland Security.

In doing so, Cortez Masto joined fellow Nevada Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen. The two moderates broke with their party last year on a vote over the last government shutdown.

Others like Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii have said in the wake of the shooting that they would oppose a DHS funding bill that is part of a spending package in the Senate that aims to avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of the month.

Read more: https://apnews.com/live/minneapolis-ice-shooting-updates-1-24-2026#0000019b-f176-d06e-affb-f3fed5f90000

[SheltieLover]

1. Good!

Dhs sbould be eliminated imo.

Go Dems!

[ananda]

2. Just do it, Dems. No funding for the Ice-stapo.

Period.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

22. Oh, I love that description of ICE,

I'm so stealing that.

[ananda]

23. I stole it too.

[Iris]

3. Excellent

[bluestarone]

4. Thune won't bring it to the floor

[ancianita]

5. All the better. The budget won't pass, and the American people will know it's about Noem and ICE.

Republicans will be blamed no matter what Thune does.
Dems and MSNOW will be all over this as they were with healthcare.
Neither the GOP nor the felon will go up in the polls over this.

[bluestarone]

6. True. guess i'm not thinking again.

[in2herbs]

7. The threat of a govt shutdown is mute. We don't have a government any longer so the talk of shutting the

government down when it no longer exists is laughable.

[Scrivener7]

13. No, it's not moot. IF he sticks to this position, and I dearly hope he does,

and IF he uses a shutdown to negotiate a serious reining in of ICE, it will be great.

We shall see what happens.

[Chemical Bill]

20. Unfortunately, the repugs don't want the government open...

any more than they want ICE held back in any way.

[in2herbs]

24. With all due respect I wrote "mute" not "moot" because no one appeared to be talking about the forthcoming

shutdown.

[PSPS]

8. LOL. "Now, pull my other finger."

We've all seen this movie before. If they would have not already caved twice last year, just think of all the lives that would have been saved.

Shut it down. Shut it all down. It's not working anyway.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

9. I gotta tell ya,

I just love all the negative comments to your thread.

[Scrivener7]

11. We've been here twice before. Each time the ramifications ratcheted up. Now the

situation is more dire than any of us could ever have imagined. You can't really blame people for taking an attitude of "I'll believe it when I see it."

[MarineCombatEngineer]

14. Oh, but I can blame people for their negative attitude,

this is, after all, a discussion board and I'm discussing, no disrespect to you and others, but my feeling is that these negative posts do absolutely nothing except create..oh, never mind.
Have a great Sunday and coming week.
...

[Scrivener7]

21. Actions - and inactions - have consequences and people have memories. I dearly hope

he does what he says he'll do this time.

[ancianita]

16. Then why not spend your posting time telling the eight senators not to cave this time? Here are their numbers.

https://www.senate.gov/general/resources/pdf/senators_phone_list.pdf

[ancianita]

18. I hear ya.

Why call senators when I provide a quicker and easier service? .

[Scrivener7]

10. That's not a risk. That's a mandate from their constituents.

[CanonRay]

12. F it. Shut it down for a year.

I'm done with half measures.

[ancianita]

15. Who were the 8 cavers, again? Call them and tell them that.

Give them this line: Remember how you caved after House Democrats said "Republicans want to cut your healthcare so badly, they'll shut down the government to do it."

Do you really want to cave when it comes to Democratic American lives and cities and states?? When it comes to the invasion of Minnesota?

https://www.senate.gov/general/resources/pdf/senators_phone_list.pdf

[CanonRay]

19. There were 7, and I wrote every one.