Washington is facing something wholly unoriginal at the end of this week: A shutdown deadline.
Democrats, unwilling to vote for any funding for the Department of Homeland Security and ICE without significant reforms to the latter, have presented a 10-point list of changes DHS needs to implement, in law, for their votes in the Senate.
In the upper chamber, Republicans need six Democratic votes to break a filibuster on government funding legislation. Senate Majority Leader John Thune and his caucus have signaled some interest in negotiating with their counterparts.
But publicly, the two sides are still accusing each other of refusing to talk. Republicans have not offered a public counter-proposal in response to the plan released by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
"Since Saturday, the ball has been in the Republicans' court. We have no idea which of our proposals they will accept and which they reject," Schumer told reporters on Monday.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune confirmed that Republicans are working on their own proposal and hoped that Democrats would support another temporary measure to fund the department at the end of the week.
That leaves the chamber just days away from the deadline with some senators on both sides expecting their colleagues to blow right past it.
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