Overview
- The Senate again blocked a DHS funding bill, keeping the department in a partial shutdown and worsening security-line delays at major airports.
- Democrats are moving to force a vote to fund only TSA and select agencies such as FEMA, while Republicans insist on a single bill that finances the entire department.
- White House border adviser Tom Homan met for a second consecutive day with bipartisan senators as GOP negotiators said they had sweetened their latest offer.
- Democrats seek statutory changes to ICE and CBP practices, including requiring warrants for forced home entries, visible identification on agents, and a ban on masks, citing deadly incidents in Minneapolis.
- President Trump posted that he would deploy ICE to run airport security if Democrats do not approve TSA funding, as unpaid TSA staff shortages drive long lines in Atlanta, New York’s JFK and New Orleans.