Jessica Tarlov

I mean, like I I'm not really holding my breath much here, honestly.

My prediction on this, I'm going to be honest with you, I don't think we're going to end up having a shutdown.

And I don't know what this comes out Friday.

I think by the time this comes out, there's going to be a cave by the Democrats.

That's my prediction.

I may be wrong.

Yes.

And I'll tell you why.

Because a short-term CR doesn't actually do anything other than just like punts at the issue.

They're going to vote, say they have a short-term CR, then they're just going to go home.

you have to, if you have a CR, you actually have to negotiate, like, okay, XYZ has to happen.

And I don't see that happening.

I don't see Republicans really meaningfully negotiating too much.

I also think, like, to me, like,

A shutdown here, partial government shutdown regarding... It's just DHS, right?

And at the end of the day, like, Democrats have talked a lot over the past week or something about how horrible everything is happening, how they want to impeach Kristi Noem, how they really want real accountability.

And then to now say, okay, we're okay with a two-week extension on ICE funding, a lot can happen in two weeks.

A lot can be done in two weeks in terms of what ICE and DHS can do.

I don't know.

I just... To me, it's like, how much... I mean...