On Thursday, the Senate failed once again to reach an agreement to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
A vote in the upper chamber to fund the agency died mostly along party lines as the Democrats minus Sen. John Fetterman once again withheld their votes.
The battle over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reforms continue. Republicans spent the day and much of Wednesday bashing their Democratic colleagues for sticking to their guns even as the GOP seeks alternative means to authorize funding for the agency.
"After everything that has transpired in the last 40+ days, it should be abundantly clear to anyone who's been watching that Democrats simply do not want a DHS funding deal," tweeted a spokesman for Sen. John Thune, the Republican majority leader, after the vote.
But some Democrats who spoke to Inside Washington on Thursday say that a deal is closer than Republicans are making it seem.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois spoke to us after voting, and said that while senators were leaving town at the end of the week without a deal, the actual potential agreement to reopen DHS was at hand.
"I think they've come back with what we asked for, except that they're not willing to put it all down in writing," said Duckworth. "For example, they want money for, you know, they agree to money for body cameras, but they won't actually agree to writing that the body cameras should be turned on."
"They largely have capitulated to what we're asking for. Now we're just going through the details," she contended.
As the shutdown drags through its second month, the effects at airports are only getting worse as TSA call-out rates climb.
Donald Trump's order to pull ICE agents off the streets and put them into airports to supposedly support TSA agents amid staffing shortages has failed to make a significant dent on wait times.
Recognizing this, he's now trying something else: An alternate funding stream to keep the paychecks coming.
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