Democrats lay out demands in prickly DHS funding fight
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S.D., believed that the top two congressional Democrats were "afraid of their shadows" as DHS funding negotiations gear up.
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Democratic leaders say they want ICE agents to take off masks, put on body cameras and obtain judicial warrants for more enforcement actions.
Some House Republicans say the deal to avert a shutdown weakens GOP leverage on immigration enforcement, with DHS funding now set to expire in February.
The four-day partial government shutdown is now over. In short succession Tuesday, lawmakers passed and Trump signed a funding package to fully reopen the federal government. But the policy fight over Trump’s immigration crackdown in U.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) will not support any funding for the Department of Homeland Security without a deal on the conduct of federal officials, a new line in the sand for congressional Democrats that increases the likelihood of a partial government shutdown later this month.
Lawmakers have a little over a week to negotiate changes to federal immigration enforcement. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., talks about what's next and what Democrats are looking to accomplish.
Congress is staring at a steep climb to finalizing a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as progressives and conservatives each try to throw their weight after the shootings by federal agents in Minneapolis.
Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) joins Meet the Press NOW to discuss Democrats’ demands for reforms to the Department of Homeland Security amid the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown.