Jon Favreau

We didn't know.

We didn't know that we were cutting a deal with the Democrats to reopen the government.

It's also retroactive, the EO that Trump signed for TSA.

So he's now paid them for the two paychecks they missed.

But no one knows what happens as we continue to go on and the shutdown drags on.

Like there's no pool of money to pay them in the future unless the government opens up.

So we're sort of going to be right back where we were.

So like the lines in the airports are better today.

But like what happens a couple weeks from now?

But again, I don't understand.

They have the... If they do another reconciliation bill, they have the ability, per the deal that was passed unanimously in the Senate, to fund ICE without the Democrats.

Because they just need 50 votes in the Senate, 51 votes in the Senate, and they need a majority in the House.

So just fucking open the rest of DHS like everyone else voted to do in the Senate, Republicans and Democrats, and then...

the democrats can say like we didn't vote to fund ice or to give ice more money but if the republicans really feel so strongly about ice they can fund ice through reconciliation

Yeah, and then we get back to our last conversation about why passing a new budget bill is just so hard.

They think it's going to.

And that's probably part of the pressure, too.

It's like, oh, you're going to keep everything shut down.

Maybe they can make the funding bill about DHS and not necessarily the war, which also seems fucking crazy.

I mentioned earlier that both the Senate and the House are in a two-week recess.