Starting early Saturday, the departments of War, Education, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Labor, State, Transportation and the Treasury have been left without federal funding, with the Executive Office of the President and the Supreme Court also affected. Democratic lawmakers demanded that one of the six remaining funding bills – for the Department of Homeland Security and its associated agencies – be struck from the package unless it stipulated major reforms to immigration enforcement. Washington Democratic Senator Patty Murray said that ICE and US Customs and Border Protection are “out of control, and that we cannot just wait for the same president who caused this mess to address it.” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Democrats were seeking “dramatic changes at the Department of Homeland Security.”
Author: RT
Published at: 2026-01-31 21:44:34
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