Sam Greenglass

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.

There have been a bunch of ideas floated around, and those are just a handful of them.

Yeah, so that legislation gave ICE an additional $75 billion to use over four years.

So even if there is a short-term shutdown here, it is not going to immediately stop this immigration crackdown.

Democrats are saying they don't want to give the agency another $10 billion in base funding that's at stake here in this funding bill.

But really, this is a question not so much about the funding, but more about a chance to

to extract some policy concessions that they could see as helping rein in the tactics being used by ICE and Customs and Border Protection right now in Minneapolis and in other cities.

Yeah, so that is actually exactly what Democrats want to do because otherwise, as you're alluding to there, a vote against Homeland Security funding would also mean a vote against funding for defense, for health, for transportation, and a whole bunch of other government agencies that would otherwise grind to a halt after Friday night if this funding runs out.

You know, in the House, Homeland Security was actually voted on separately from everything else.

And that allowed all but seven Democrats to vote no without really sweating that vote so much.

But in part to expedite things, the House sent a bunch of funding bills over to the Senate as one mega package.

And that was actually not really expected to be a problem in the Senate.

And then the shooting on Saturday really upended everything.

So far, Republican leadership have said they're not willing to pull these bills apart.

And even if they did, it would require bringing the House back to sign off on all of it again.

And the House is in recess until next week.