David Gurra

And it's to terminate the national emergency that President Trump has used to justify the tariffs he's put in place on Canada.

is that 60-vote filibuster-proof majority that they would need to get seems unlikely.

So you see this pressure from Republicans in the House on John Thune, the majority leader, to relax these filibuster rules.

He and other institutionalists are reluctant to do that.

This is the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, one that would require you to produce evidence that you are in fact a citizen when you cast a ballot.

This was another close vote in the House, 218 to 213.

This one did go in Speaker Mike Johnson's favor.

I think what will be interesting to see here is the way in which this makes its way through the Senate, if in fact it does.

It sounds like, from what Tom Holman said, we are going to see a change in tactic here, but certainly, and I'll emphasize this as well, nothing in those remarks makes it sound like that federal presence, yes, it might be diminished, is going away.

anytime soon.

A lot of what he focused on in his comments.

With the conversations that he's had with local and state officials over these last few days, he pointed to points of agreement where they can kind of find a path forward, points of disagreement.

The notion of what a sanctuary city is certainly a key one of disagreement there.

Without an agreement, the government would shut down on Saturday.

Most of the government, I should say, would, including the Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services.

What we see Democrats wanting to do is a kind of carve out here that would leave out the Department of Homeland Security.

And in so doing, shortening that funding would give them time to spell out, list more demands here to the administration Republicans for what they'd like to see DHS doing here when it comes to enforcement of immigration policy.

He went ahead with the ceremony where he officially launched this board, even though details are still pretty scant and major key allies of the U.S.

opted not to join it.

So who was on stage?