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House GOP rejects Senate DHS deal, prolonging shutdown (www.cnn.com)

submitted 23 hours ago by Midnitte@beehaw.org to c/politics@beehaw.org

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In a remarkable 24 hours in Washington, House Republicans snubbed a bipartisan funding deal cut by their own Senate GOP counterparts and instead approved an entirely different plan — prolonging the Department of Homeland Security shutdown.

Then, they left town.

Simply amazing - remember that instead of solving the problem, Republicans went on vacation.

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[–] TehPers@beehaw.org 13 points 22 hours ago

And he downplayed the urgency felt by some of his GOP colleagues that airports will suffer in the meantime: “The president has already said he’s going to fund TSA out of funds he has.”

So uh let's look past the constitutionality of Trump funding the TSA through an executive order because anyone challenging it would be committing political suicide.

How, exactly, does that help the GOP? If the TSA is being funded anyway, doesn't it benefit Senate Dems to just not accept any bill that they don't like? GOP is basically throwing away one of their biggest levers to try to force Dems to compromise.

And look, I'm all for that. Dems should just reject bills they don't like if there's nothing for them in the bills. Fuck funding DHS/ICE. Fuck the Voter ID stuff. Just keep saying "no" until you get some wins because Trump seems to want to just hand you them on a silver platter anyway.