Sam Greenglass

And appropriators say that they are on track except for the Homeland Security package.

And this one is proving to be pretty thorny because some Democrats are calling for it to include provisions that would rein in immigration and customs enforcement.

amid all these really forceful ice crackdowns that we're seeing around the country.

But I got to say, there is not a lot of appetite even for a partial government shutdown right now after all that we lived through back in the fall.

So what's more likely is that this DHS funding just gets extended without changes, another continuing resolution, and would kick that debate until after the midterms.

Yeah.

So the other week, a handful of Republicans joined Democrats to force a vote on an extension in the House.

And, you know, that particular measure was never going to become law.

But what it did do was recharge bipartisan negotiations over in the Senate.

And last week, you know, I was talking to all these lawmakers who were involved in these talks and they were so optimistic.

They were saying things like we're getting really close or, you know, another even said they were in the red zone.

This week, though, it was a totally different story.

You heard people saying that the talks were paused.

They're basically floundering.

And then you had President Trump, who released a health plan of his own that seemed to spiral things even further.

I just want to listen for a minute to how one of these bipartisan negotiators described the current environment.

Here is Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.

You know, others said the talks could still continue basically in tandem with what Trump wants.

But you also heard some of them starting to shift the blame for possible failure to colleagues across the aisle, you know, if all this goes south.

But I should say that there were sticking points between the parties in these negotiations even before this Trump plan rolled out, namely that some Republicans want stricter language ensuring that federal money is not used for abortion.