Dan Pfeiffer

You use the Trump number, not the previous House race in that House district with Mar-a-Lago because it probably was not particularly competitive because the Democrat didn't run a real race.

So you throw them all in there.

Right now, the special elections look like 2018 in terms of margin.

Except for the generic ballot.

Yeah, I think it seems bad because that says there's no deal, which means there's no law being passed that sends money to the Department of Homeland Security that they can then take that money and give it to the workers.

The sticking point was, if you want to get nerdy about this, is that if you fund all of DHS except ICE, you're still funding CBP and HSI, Homeland Security Investigations, and they do immigration enforcement.

And so they would be proceeding, we'd be paying them to do immigration enforcement absent reforms.

And if we remember, it was CBP officers who were involved in the killing of

of Alex Pretty.

It also seems like they were going to get a deal.

As our old boss, Pete Rouse from Obama World used to say, nothing motivates a senator like the smell of jet fumes.

And once John Thune said, well, I guess we're not going to be able to go on recess if we don't fix this.

It was pretty sure they're headed for a deal.

So Trump has fucked this up.

It's not clear how they're going to

pay for it like are they going to take money from ice and give it to them which seems cool but definitely not legal maybe maybe they'll get some from the big beautiful bill but you can't do it like i mean i'm like yeah like i haven't said nothing matters but that's definitely not how the power of the purse works like congress didn't fund them like you can't maybe he's getting a rich person to pay them i don't really know what's happening

Is his authority under the law?

As America's favorite soybean farmer would say, he's jujitsu in you, John.

I honestly have no idea.

I don't even know what to say.