Michael Bavaro

From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro.

This is The Daily Net.

Later tonight, the U.S.

government will find itself in yet another shutdown, this time of only one agency, the Department of Homeland Security.

Today, congressional reporter Michael Gold on why Democrats are once again picking a fight over funding with the president.

It's Friday, February 13th.

Michael, thank you for making time for us on a busy day where I know we just grabbed you inside the U.S.

Capitol.

Yeah, a lot happening here on the Hill today, I would say.

Well, appreciate you making time for us.

As of this moment, at around 3.45 p.m.

on Thursday afternoon, it sure looks like we are headed for another government shutdown.

But this one has a very unique twist to it.

A fractional government shutdown, right.

And as you're hinting at, government shutdowns have become the norm.

But even within that weird new norm, this one is quite unique.

So tell us the story of how we get to a single agency fractional shutdown.

Right, and the argument was that that creates more transparency if you have multiple bills funding the government versus one vast, impenetrable bill.

Got it.

So Democrats extract some changes to the way that immigration officials are going to be operating in places like Minneapolis.