Sahil Kapur

They were just kind of sitting there staring at him.

In other cases, when he started trash-talking the Democrats, some of them shouted back at him.

So there was a real desire, it seemed, for confrontation on the part of Trump toward Democrats.

Look, nobody stands up.

These people are crazy.

It's very clear President Trump is staying the course on the issue of the economy and on his immigration policy.

The country has turned against him on both those issues.

The economy has suddenly become the Democrats' best weapon against him in the midterm elections.

And this has caused some real concern among Republicans, especially those who have to fight for re-election in Congress.

competitive districts and competitive states.

There was not a lot in this speech that a Republican facing a competitive re-election could look at and say things are going to improve in terms of the environment between now and November.

There are already concerns that Congress is not going to reach a deal in time, and those concerns exist at the highest levels.

The idea of doing them in this condensed time frame of less than two weeks, I mean, 10 days from when the bill was signed into law, is very questionable in and of itself.

So Republicans are concerned about that.

They're not sold on requiring judicial warrants as well.

The Trump administration doesn't want that.

They prefer to have maximal power in-house to carry out a mass deportation program they believe Trump was elected to carry out.

Whereas Democrats and a bunch of mayors and governors, especially in blue parts of the country, say that makes the community less safe.

It creates a chilling effect between ordinary residents, citizens and the local police if they're, for instance, required to turn over someone who's been in their community, who's not doing anything wrong.

It's an open question whether DHS would be funded at all or if Democrats would block a continuing resolution.