Lindsey McPherson

Senate in standstill after Republicans present their final offer on DHS funding

Senate Republicans gave their "last and final" offer on a compromise to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown on Thursday, but a test vote showed Democrats were not ready to accept the deal.

March 26, 2026

Senate Democrats reject federal voter ID requirement

Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked a Republican proposal to institute a national voter ID requirement.

March 26, 2026

Republicans give Democrats ‘last and final’ offer on DHS funding as threat of canceling recess looms

Senate Republicans have given their "last and final" offer on a compromise to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday.

March 26, 2026

Record airport security lines among long list of DHS shutdown impacts

With the current partial shutdown and the record 43-day governmentwide shutdown last fall, most DHS employees have gone without pay for half the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.

March 25, 2026

Republicans, Democrats spar on status of DHS negotiations as hope fades for ending shutdown

Democrats are still demanding that immigration enforcement agents stop wearing masks and obtain judicial warrants to enter private property as part of a counteroffer on Department of Homeland Security funding they sent Republicans on Wednesday.

March 25, 2026

TSA warns that smaller airports could close amid marathon security wait times

U.S. airports have experienced the highest security wait times in history over the past 40 days while the Department of Homeland Security has been shut down, with some line delays stretching beyond 4 1/2 hours, the head of the Transportation Security Administration told lawmakers on Wednesday.

March 25, 2026

GOP plan to reopen DHS falters with Trump ‘unhappy,’ Democrats still demanding big changes for ICE

A Republican-led plan to reopen the Department of Homeland Security without funding ICE's detention and deportation operations is teetering as President Trump said he is "not happy" with it and Democrats said they cannot vote for it without additional changes.

March 24, 2026

Trump says he’d be ‘unhappy’ with GOP deal to end partial shutdown

President Trump said Tuesday that he's willing to take a "good, hard look" at the Republican plan to end the partial government shutdown and fund the Department of Homeland Security, but he didn't say he'd support it.

March 24, 2026

Trump reverses course on SAVE Act demand, open to GOP deal to end DHS shutdown

President Trump is willing to back the Republican plan to end the partial government shutdown and fund the Department of Homeland Security without money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement removal, a White House official told The Washington Times.

March 24, 2026

Trump’s demand to tie voting to DHS funding complicates slow going shutdown talks

President Trump is rebuffing suggestions from Republican lawmakers and his own aides about how to end the Homeland Security Department shutdown and instead adding a demand that likely will extend the six-week-long stalemate.

March 23, 2026

‘We ain’t doing it’: Schumer rejects Trump demand to tie SAVE America Act to DHS funding

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer on Monday said Democrats are not going to give in to President Trump's demand to tie the GOP's election legislation to funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

March 23, 2026

Senate debate on SAVE America Act continues into second week as Democrats block GOP amendment

Republicans have begun putting Democrats on the record on President Trump's top legislative priorities as the Senate heads into its second week debating the SAVE America Act.

March 22, 2026

White House deploys ICE agents to airports as DHS shutdown talks stall

President Trump is sending ICE agents to airports starting Monday to help relieve security lines despite sharp criticism from Democrats and the union representing Transportation Security Administration workers.

March 22, 2026

Senate Democrats again block DHS funding as talks with White House grind on

Senate Democrats voted for the fifth time on Friday to block a Department of Homeland Security funding bill from advancing as they continue to push for immigration enforcement policy changes.

March 20, 2026

Trump re-endorses Rep. Jeff Hurd after backing his primary challenger over tariff spat

President Trump reissued his endorsement of Rep. Jeff Hurd on Friday after withdrawing his support for the Colorado Republican last month because the congressman voted against his tariff policy.

March 20, 2026

Democrats dispute GOP claim that they added new demands in DHS funding negotiations

Democrats are pushing back on Republicans' claim that they are adding new demands in negotiations to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown.

March 20, 2026

Senate Democrats pile on new demands as DHS funding talks bog down

Top Senate appropriators and centrist dealmakers met with White House border czar Tom Homan on Thursday to negotiate an end to the monthlong shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, but left the negotiating session still far from a deal.

March 19, 2026

Senate to work through weekend debating SAVE America Act

The Senate will debate through the weekend legislation to prevent noncitizens from voting as Republicans continue to mull the best strategy for bringing the measure to a final vote.

March 19, 2026

House rejects proposed balanced budget amendment to the Constitution

The House on Wednesday rejected a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would require Congress to balance the federal budget within five years of its ratification.

March 18, 2026

Letting the SAVE America Act fail would be ‘suicidal,’ Sen. Lee warns GOP colleagues

Sen. Mike Lee, the Utah Republican leading a bill to prevent noncitizens from voting, warned his GOP colleagues Wednesday that quickly ending debate on the measure and letting it fail would be politically "suicidal."

March 18, 2026