Zach Schermele

You too, Dana.

So all Democrats and seven Republicans in the Senate failed to advance a what was originally bipartisan funding package that included six Republicans.

of the federal government's 12 annual appropriations bills.

So essentially, as you noted, ever since the killing over the weekend of Alex Preddy, a 37-year-old ICU nurse in Minneapolis, Senate Democrats have been extremely united over their concerns regarding the Trump administration's

immigration enforcement surge in Minneapolis and, you know, just point blank said to Senate Republicans and to the White House, we are not going to advance this funding package despite having negotiated over it for months.

months if there is not an agreement to strip out a bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security, which includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, and Border Patrol.

We need that to be stripped out of the broader funding package, and we'll fund the rest of the government, but we want to buy some time to negotiate over our concerns related to immigration.

After the vote, the White House and Senate Democrats did come to a deal.

They said that they are going to move forward with taking out the Department of Homeland Security funding bill.

They're going to pass instead a short term measure for that agency to buy them some time.

time to continue on with negotiations about reform there while moving forward with the rest of their appropriations bills.

This doesn't, though, avert necessarily a partial government shutdown because there are just a lot of logistical hurdles that now have to happen, namely that the legislation has to go back to the House of Representatives, which is out.

So we could see a partial shutdown, even a short one over the coming days.

You know, it's really interesting, Dana, we have seen lawmakers in this Congress make some notable headway with respect to pushing back both Republicans and Democrats on some of the infringement, frankly, that the president, that the executive branch has engaged in with respect to their spending authority, right?

So Russ Vogt and the Office of Management and Budget and many federal agencies have in

so many instances over the course of President Trump's second term back in the White House, essentially decided with respect to all sorts of government programs that they were going to stop those programs for the foreseeable future for whatever reason.

And that has wrangled even quietly some congressional Republicans.

And so this spending package includes a lot of reversals to those cuts.

It's a big win for Democrats and a big win for

Republicans like Senator Susan Collins of Maine, the chair of the Appropriations Committee in the Senate, who's very supportive of a lot of federal programs that for a long time have been bipartisan.