No clear path to ending the partial government shutdown as lawmakers dig in over DHS oversight

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Lawmakers and the White House offered nary signs of compromise Sunday successful their conflict implicit oversight of national migration officers that has led to a intermission successful backing for the Department of Homeland Security.

A partial authorities shutdown began Saturday aft legislature Democrats and President Donald Trump's squad failed to scope a woody connected authorities to money the section done September. Democrats are demanding changes to however migration operations are conducted aft the fatal shootings of U.S. citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Good by national officers successful Minneapolis past month.

Congress is connected recess until Feb. 23, and some sides look dug into their positions. The impasse affects agencies specified arsenic the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Coast Guard, the Secret Service, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The enactment astatine ICE and CBP goes connected unabated due to the fact that Trump's taxation and spending chopped instrumentality from 2025 provided billions much to those agencies that tin beryllium tapped for deportation operations. About 90% of DHS employees were to proceed moving during the shutdown, but bash truthful without wage - and missed paychecks could mean fiscal hardships. Last twelvemonth determination was a grounds 43-day authorities shutdown.

White House borderline czar Tom Homan said the medication was unwilling to hold to Democrats' demands that national officers intelligibly place themselves, region masks during operations and show unsocial ID numbers.

"I don't similar the masks, either," Homan said, But, helium said, "These men and women person to support themselves."

Democrats besides privation to necessitate migration agents to deterioration assemblage cameras and mandate judicial warrants for arrests connected backstage property.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Democrats are lone asking for national agents to abide by rules followed by instrumentality enforcement agencies astir the country.

"And the question that Americans are asking is, 'Why aren't Republicans going on with these commonsense proposals?'" Schumer said. "They're not crazy. They're not mode out. They're what each constabulary section successful America does."

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., said helium could backmost Democrats calls to equip migration officers with assemblage cameras and would enactment efforts to bolster training. But helium balked astatine their demands that national officers region masks and intelligibly place themselves, noting immoderate officers taking portion successful migration enforcement operations person faced doxing and different harassment.

"What are you going to do, exposure their faces truthful you tin intimidate their families?" Mullins said. "What we privation is ICE to beryllium capable to bash their job. And we would emotion for section instrumentality enforcement and for states to cooperate with us."

Republican Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama, a Trump state who had pushed for a two-week hold of DHS backing portion negotiations continued, said it was "shortsighted of Democrats to locomotion away" from talks.

Trump made enforcement of the nation's migration laws a centerpiece of his 2024 run for the White House and helium promised to beryllium assertive successful detaining and deporting radical surviving successful the United States without ineligible permission.

DHS reports it has deported much than 675,000 migrants since Trump's instrumentality to bureau past twelvemonth and claims immoderate 2.2 cardinal others person "self-deported" arsenic the Republican president has made his migration crackdown a priority.

"President Trump is not going to backmost distant from the mission, the ngo that American radical said they wanted him to complete, and that is securing our borderline and making definite that we really bash interior enforcement," Britt said.

Homan was connected CBS' "Face the Nation," Schumer and Mullin appeared connected CNN's "State of the Union" and Britt was interviewed connected "Fox News Sunday."