The White House and Senate Democratic leaders continued to trade offers and kept the details of negotiations private, signaling some hope — but no guarantee of an agreement.

The White House and Senate Democratic leaders continued to trade offers and kept the details of negotiations private, signaling some hope — but no guarantee of an agreement.

Department of Homeland Security is poised to shut down this weekend as Congress remained deadlocked Thursday on a path forward before leaving town for a weeklong holiday break.

The White House and Democratic leaders have continued to trade offers, signaling some hope for an agreement. But it remains unclear which Democratic demands the White House will agree to when it comes to slapping restraints on immigration enforcement after federal agents killed two American citizens in Minnesota.

With Congress out of town, DHS will shut down beginning at 12:01 a.m. Saturday. That means that federal employees at agencies such as FEMA, the Transportation Security Administration and the Coast Guard won’t be paid, though most of them will continue showing up for work because their jobs are considered critical.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      20 hours ago

      First, migrate the shit out of it that should’ve never been in it.

      I don’t know why the department in change of natural disaster aid is in the same org as TSA and ICE. That’s so damn silly.

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        31·
        7 hours ago

        The reasoning, I assume, is that they deal with issues internal to the nation. There’s some logic to that, but I think I’m with you that it largely doesn’t make sense.

        • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          It’s some old 9/11 BS.

          FEMA responds any disaster, including one caused by terrorism. They got rolled into DHS so one chain of command could coordinate responses to terrorism.

          Problem is, 99.9% of their day job responding to non-terrorism disasters.

          It’s an org structure designed around an edge case, not the more common needs.

          • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            1·
            4 hours ago

            Don’t forget to mention that Terrorism™ is, and always has been a psyop fulcrum devoid of fact in lieu of leverage.

        • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          4 hours ago

          I would argue that the coast guard never operates in an area internal to the nation. They obviously operate on the outside edge – it’s in the name.