Chad Pergram

Now, this is a jam job by the Senate.

The House must either take it or leave it.

Now, that's Fox's Chad Perk with the Capitol, where the House will soon consider the bill.

This is precisely what Democrats requested for weeks.

But Democrats did not score concrete reforms at ICE.

Republicans question why Democrats were holding out.

This is something that they have been working on for hours and hours and hours.

And they did it without even a formal roll call vote.

They did it with just a skeleton crew inside the chamber here.

And

This might be the beginning of breaking this impasse with the funding for the Department of Homeland Security that has gone on now for 41 days, two hours and about 37 minutes.

It's really remarkable here that this is the first genuine movement.

This funds everything at the Department of Homeland Security except funding for ICE and also a little bit of money for the Customs and Border Protection.

Democrats say they sent Republicans a counteroffer, but so far there is no movement on altering the ICE mask policy or changing how ICE handles warrants.

Usually the threat of canceling a congressional recess helps get lawmakers to the table.

Lawmakers are scheduled to go on recess for two weeks on Friday.

And so far, the staggering TSA lines have made no difference toward bridging the impasse.

He became the FBI director just a couple of days before 9-11.

He was better known as the special counsel in the Russia probe.

He did not find any Russian conspiracy in the 2016 election.