Ximena Bustillo

It's not even together right now.

I mean, to be clear, at the time we are taping this podcast, you know, the Senate has not even voted on the deal that they have brokered with the president.

So we aren't together right now, to be clear.

But, you know, I think that like let's speak in hypotheticals.

Senate passes it, House passes it, and then clock starts on DHS only.

And they have two weeks to renegotiate DHS.

I mean, they're going to take those two weeks to fully talk through what's going to be included and what's not going to be included.

And of course, if Democrats get some wins, Republicans might want to add some things to that pile as well.

And there is the risk of a legislative slippery slope where this suddenly becomes...

immigration reform, you know, all of a sudden immigration enforcement reform.

However, the other thing that is interesting in the timing here is, as Sam mentioned, right after that second shooting, there was suddenly the scheduling of a slew of congressional oversight hearings.

And two of those hearings, out-of-house homeland and Senate homeland, will take place on the Tuesday and Thursday that the DHS funding bill would expire.

And so, you know, part of me is wondering if the impact of the Preti shooting—

will lose its salience over the course of the next two weeks.

The further we've gotten away from it, the less Republicans have spoken out.

People have kind of toned down their language.

It's a little bit more of a wait and see what the White House does on the ground in Minneapolis.

But it might all come back into the headlines when you have the head of ICE, you have the head of Border Patrol, you have the head of U.S.

Citizenship and Immigration Service back-to-back testifying and facing what I do anticipate to be some hard questions also from Republicans, seeing as the funding and there is broader criticism than ever before.

So, you know, we could see this suddenly spur up again in about two weeks.