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They put it together and Democrats did this too clever by half move.

This is before the killing.

I think it was a Thursday night that it passed through the House.

What they did is they they gave Democrats.

Democratic support for these Republican measures that were not related to DHS and it allowed them allowed Republicans and then separate out the DHS spending package.

Democrats then all except for like six of them or so voted against that.

But leadership knew that the strategy that the two parties were taking was going to move federal money for all agencies through.

But it allowed Democrats not to have their fingerprints on the ICE money.

So that's kind of where the politics were leading up to Thursday.

The Democrats...

didn't want to be associated with DHS spending, but were willing to play games in Washington that would allow us to avoid a government shutdown.

That all changed because of the shooting.

So now what Schumer is demanding, and he has, according to my sources in the Senate,

unified support among the caucus for a strategy that says, we will fund all of the government except for DHS.

So we don't want to shut the government down.

We want to do what we did over in the House, pass all these bills separately, keep everything open, FEMA especially.

because we're in the midst of this horrific storm with thousands out of power, millions affected, but we're not funding DHS until there are reforms.

So what that does is that they think, at least, that it puts then Republicans in the position of saying, no, we're going to shut the government down unless you give us money for ICE and CBP without any reforms whatsoever.

And that feels kind of untenable given the public position

That, no, this needs to be reined in.