Sam Greenglass

And what they've convinced Republicans to do here is separate funding for much of the government from money for the Department of Homeland Security, which is going to get extended for just about two weeks.

But the House still needs to sign off on this change.

And so that is not going to happen in time to avert a shutdown, at least a short one.

Yeah, a little bit.

You know, after the second fatal shooting, you know, even some Republicans were expressing alarm about what was happening in Minnesota.

And this was

coming not just from your typical critics within the party, the people we hear from a lot on some of these issues.

There were calls for investigations and hearings.

You know, even Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said Democrats are probably right about needing some reforms here.

And we have seen this before, like with the administration's actions in Venezuela, where we had Republicans expressing concern in the first hours and days after some action by President Trump and his administration.

But we also pretty quickly saw some willingness this time from Republican leadership to actually take action around some of these Democratic demands.

And what they did is they agreed to split these bills apart to cleave off Department of Homeland Security funding from everything else, which is what Democrats were requesting as their path forward.

And as to why this is happening, and I think Republican Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina summed up why pretty well.

It's terrible.

Yeah, I mean, this is kind of a question that I have had all week, namely why these members who backed down last time were willing to risk another shutdown fight again.

Now, and so I put that question to Senator Jackie Rosen, Democrat of Nevada.

She was one of these five who broke with her party last fall to reopen the government.

But this time she said she was willing to risk a shutdown over ICE tactics.

So Democrats here think the public is on their side and that this moment is really spurring anger and passion on both sides of the aisle and that this maybe strikes at something more fundamental about the direction of the country in a way that the health subsidies debate did not.

But, Tam, I think you're right that this could all amount to nothing at the end because we have seen time and time again where there's these glimmers of bipartisan talks and maybe there's something that everyone can get together and pass into law and then it doesn't happen in the end.