Damian Paletta

After the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretty in Minnesota, Democrats suddenly had a tremendous amount of leverage over the White House on the operations of ICE and the Department of Homeland Security.

And the Republicans knew this.

The White House knew this.

In fact, they didn't even try to put up a fight.

Now, what exactly they end up giving is unclear and what Democrats ask for is unclear.

But they were just out of time on this spending package.

So they agreed to this step gap bill it's going to probably take a little time to bump through Congress, so there could actually be technically a temporary shutdown over the weekend, although no one really notice.

And then they'll have a couple weeks to figure out what exactly they want to do.

Now, the Democrats could try to cut a deal quickly just to have some imprint on new policy, or they could go to the mat, fight over possibly the removal of Kirstjen Ohm as the secretary of DHS.

And that could be, obviously, a lot more complicated.

So Democrats have to figure out how they want to proceed here, but they're going to have a little time to do that.

This is a completely different president than in past years.

He's very at peace, ironically, being more adversarial with U.S.

allies.

And he's not going to take no for an answer.

Yeah, this is a completely different president than in past years.

He has a much different focus.

He's very at peace, ironically, being more adversarial with U.S.

allies.

His approach here is that this is his second term, he's done playing nice, and he has his