Jon Lovett

So you'd end up with some kind of compromise.

There are people on the left that say the agency and some other online warriors

that are not ideologically from the left that like any kind of compromise is unacceptable meanwhile because ice is funded through the big beautiful bill the only way of changing ice is actually through funding it that's just the reality uh so that's what the original contours in negotiation were but now actually we were actually trying to extract something else which is to force ice to live off the money that it spent on the big beautiful bill without our votes right but republicans don't seem to be able to pass something without us so i don't know what happens from here

Yeah, I do think this starts to boil down to how they pay for the $200 billion supplemental plus additional money for ICE.

Yeah, I will just say like one hiccup in all of this is if they really can't get to some kind of a deal without Democrats, if the House won't accept anything Democrats will accept and the Senate won't get rid of the filibuster, added political pressure on reconciliation, if they...

How can they possibly do a supplemental for Iran without funding DHS?

You're telling me we're not going to fund the Coast Guard, but we're going to buy bombs for a war nobody voted for?

Republicans, because of a fight between Donald Trump, Senate Republicans, and House Republicans, that's who the fight is between, kept the Department of Homeland Security

Right.

Meant to protect us from all kinds of threats.

Which are, you know, rising in a time of war that they started.

They have not been able to come to agreement amongst themselves to fund DHS.

There is an agreement with Democrats.

We made one.

We passed 100 to 0 in the Senate.

Not a single objection.

100 to 0.

Passed a bipartisan funding bill to cover DHS and DHS.

allows ice to continue to operate right according to what republicans wanted because ice has a sitting on tens of billions of dollars from the big beautiful bill and in the last moments republicans abandoned that and then left the city just left while that is ongoing so i like we of course we should be exploiting it and and yeah robert garcia can go visit vegas you know put a couple do whatever they

We do so much, like so much of politics now is just like all these kinds of symbolic battles.