DHS shutdown begins as funding expires without a deal in Congress

Washington — A partial authorities shutdown centered connected the Department of Homeland Security began Saturday amid a stalemate implicit the Trump administration's arguable migration enforcement policies. 

It's the 2nd clip successful arsenic galore weeks that backing has lapsed for portion of the authorities arsenic Democrats and the White House stay astatine likelihood connected restraints for national migration agents. DHS oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, whose behaviour has been progressively scrutinized since national agents fatally changeable Renee Good and Alex Pretti successful Minnesota. 

Though the impasse has revolved astir migration enforcement, the shutdown will interaction different agencies nether DHS' umbrella, including the Transportation Security Administration, the Coast Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Republicans person noted that ICE and CBP received an infusion of $140 cardinal successful past year's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, capable to transportation them done the remainder of President Trump's term. 

Disagreements implicit DHS backing led to a four-day partial shutdown that ended earlier this period with an statement to money astir of the government, but DHS, done September. Funding for DHS, which employs much than 260,000 people, was alternatively extended astatine existent levels for 2 weeks, expiring Friday. 

On Thursday, Senate Democrats stood steadfast successful opposing legislation to money DHS done September without further reforms to ICE and CBP. Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania was the lone Democrat to ballot with Republicans successful favour of advancing the legislation. Democrats besides blocked an effort to widen DHS backing for different 2 weeks portion negotiations continue. 

"Our caucus is passionate astir this. If you sat successful connected our caucus meetings, you'd spot however powerfully radical feel," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, told reporters aft the vote. "And you cognize who are among the strongest? Some of the precise radical who didn't ballot with america past time."

Congress near municipality Thursday without immoderate statement connected DHS backing and isn't expected to instrumentality until Feb. 23, a time earlier Mr. Trump is scheduled to present the State of the Union address. Leaders could telephone backmost members earlier past if a woody is reached. 

But it's unclear however adjacent negotiators are to ending the impasse. 

Mr. Trump said Thursday day that immoderate of the Democrats' demands are "very, precise hard to approve." 

Requiring migration agents to deterioration assemblage cameras and identification, banning them from wearing masks and mandating judicial warrants for arrests connected backstage spot are among Democrats' demands. 

Schumer said Thursday that Democratic negotiators "will beryllium disposable 24/7" to proceed discussions erstwhile the White House and Republicans are acceptable to "get serious." 

The White House sent a legislative connection for full-year backing to Democrats precocious Wednesday, days aft Democrats sent their ain draught bill. But Democratic leaders person dismissed the White House's connection arsenic insufficient, though specifics of the connection person not been disclosed. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, a New York Democrat, said Friday day that Democrats planned to respond to the White House's plan. 

"It's my anticipation that astatine immoderate point, Democrats successful the House and the Senate, jointly, volition respond to the latest unserious connection formally, and past it volition erstwhile again beryllium successful the hands of Donald Trump and Republicans to determine what's next," Jeffries said. 

Earlier Friday, Mr. Trump said negotiations are ongoing, portion adding that his extremity is to "protect our instrumentality enforcement." 

"We'll spot what happens," helium said of cutting a woody with Democrats. 

Before Thursday's Senate vote, Mr. Trump's borderline czar Tom Homan announced a surge successful national migration enforcement successful Minnesota would travel to an end, 1 measurement that Democrats person demanded. But Schumer said Thursday connected the Senate level that "ICE's abuses cannot beryllium solved simply done enforcement fiat alone." 

"We archetypal and foremost request legislation," Schumer said, noting that Mr. Trump could determine to reverse people without legislative guardrails. 

In a memo Friday directing DHS to "execute plans for an orderly shutdown," Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought said the Trump medication "is presently engaged successful bully religion negotiations with Congress to code precocious raised concerns." 

"The Administration volition proceed to question good-faith, bipartisan solutions to implicit the appropriations process and debar different damaging authorities shutdown," Vought wrote. 

Nikole Killion contributed to this report.