• Congressional Democrats sent a counteroffer to the White House and Republicans in negotiations to reopen the Department of Homeland Security.
  • Democrats want increased restrictions on immigration enforcement agents in exchange for funding the agency.
  • DHS closed early Saturday morning when two-week-long stopgap funding for the agency ran out.
  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    There are no promises that you can extract that they won’t immediately violate as soon as they get the money.

    Leave it shut down until the new congress can completely remake it.