Sam Greenglass

Now, House Speaker Mike Johnson has said the House will do its job.

They will get this done.

But, you know, that is still not a totally settled question, especially with these narrow margins.

And then, of course, there's this bigger task that Jimena has been talking about, about looking at reforms and could additional asks from different members be inserted into this process and gum up the works here.

And so there are a lot of unknowns headed into next week.

And I think this is something that makes this fight potentially different from the fight last fall over the health subsidies.

Democrats were constantly asking President Trump to weigh in, to get involved in cutting a deal to extend the subsidies.

And that never happened.

Yeah.

And as Jimena, I think, nodded at earlier, what else happens in the next two weeks?

Just in the last couple of months, we've seen so many quick news cycles from talking every day about health subsidies to talking every day about Venezuela to talking about Greenland to now we're talking about immigration.

But is that going to stay the case for the next two weeks or is some other issue going to pop up on the national radar?

And then just in the short term, if we do have a short term shutdown here, you know, it's not going to be exactly like the last one because Congress has already funded a bunch of agencies through September.

So, for example, the Department of Agriculture is already funded.

So we're not going to see food stamps running out.

But there are still some pretty big agencies that are unfunded after tonight.

You know, the Pentagon, Health and Human Services, Housing and, of course, Homeland Security.

And so will we see some little short term effects, even if, you know, we're not going to see federal workers missing paychecks if this is just a short shutdown?

Yeah, so Democrats think there is an opportunity here to use the funding bill to rein in federal immigration tactics.

They're asking for reforms like mandating warrants for immigration arrests, prohibiting immigration officers from concealing their identity, requiring officers to use body cameras and to stop raids at churches, hospitals, and schools.