Michael Gold

thought we would be in partial shutdown territory in January.

It really felt like everyone wanted to move past the last one.

But I think the things that have happened have been so egregious.

And I would point out too, there were a group of House members, a pretty big group of House members, led by Ilhan Omar, but also Pramila Jayapal, who were in Minneapolis, I think either last weekend or the weekend before, who've been trying to go, who've been trying to make the point that

people need to see what's going on here and people need to to be present here i don't know look i mean the reality of it is it's it's seven democrats i think that they need uh to um to pass this bill it doesn't seem like the will is there right now so i think the thing for them to do on the hill right now talk really seriously what is they want what it is they need to see what concessions they need to put in sorry what guard rails they need what concessions they need from republicans

The tricky thing is the Senate is here this week, but the House is not.

So anything that the Senate decides is going to go back to the House, and we're going to have a little ping-ponging and back and forth.

But I think one other aspect of this that I just want to point out that I don't think is being mentioned is – and I know I'm realizing I'm talking a lot here, but the so-called Big Beautiful Bill gave this massive windfall of money to ICE.

I mean, millions of dollars that they didn't have before.

Billions of dollars.

Excuse me.

Yeah, probably –

Billions is more accurate in this case.

This is money they didn't have before.

And it came with almost no guardrails.

So I think there is a big desire from Democrats to say who were cut out of that process to use the position they have in the Senate to put guardrails on that money to do the thing that they weren't able to do over the summer and say, we have to put our foot down.

Enough is enough.

And I'll be curious to see what that looks like.

Thank you.

Yes, I'm in a phone booth, basically.