Ryan Knudson

The idea was to fund all of DHS, but to leave ICE funding specifically to a process called reconciliation, which is basically a way to fund certain things with a simple majority in the Senate.

So how did Trump respond to this deal about funding all of DHS except for ICE?

The Save America Act is Trump's top legislative priority right now.

It's a bill about voter eligibility.

Among other things, it would require people to prove citizenship before registering to vote and show government-issued ID at the ballot box.

Tell me more about that.

Is that likely to happen?

Could this actually help get the SAVE Act passed?

Hmm.

Why is it impossible?

Even though Trump initially rejected Thune's proposal about funding all of DHS except for ICE, some lawmakers in Congress are trying to push ahead anyway.

So it's sort of like...

We had this government shut down and we funded the whole government and just kept the DHS issue open.

And now we're going to just like do a miniature version of that again, where we're just going to fund like most of DHS and not like the most controversial part and just keep kicking the can down the road.

But as we talked about earlier, ICE has all this funding already from the big, beautiful bill.

So is withholding funding from DHS actually having any impact on ICE's actual work?

So how close do you think this crisis at the airports is to being resolved and TSA agents being able to start receiving paychecks again?

If Congress isn't able to reach a deal by Friday, then the airport chaos could continue for another two weeks at least.

Yesterday, Trump expressed frustration with the ongoing negotiations in Congress, which don't include his Save America Act.

Even if they can reach a deal to fund DHS, it might still take a while for the TSA to recover.