BearDown 4547 🐻⬇️

Fully agree!

Be'er Sheva, Israel right now after an Iranian missile attack.

After weeks of negotiations, Republicans caved to our demands to fund DHS without a blank check for ICE and CBP. My full statement below:

The Senate has voted to fund DHS *except for* ICE and Border Patrol. This happened after a Trump threat, but how is it not a big Democratic win? In the past, the party that attached conditions to re-opening the government, or parts of the government, lost the shutdown. Now, Democrats have gotten away with attaching conditions to re-opening the government, and Republicans have agreed to a deal funding most of DHS, but not its immigration enforcement and deportation operations. What was the big Republican mistake here? Negotiating. You don't negotiate with people who are shutting down all or part of the government. The proper response to a threatened shutdown is: "Re-open the government, and then we'll talk about your issue. But first the government has to be re-opened." That is always the public's view. Instead, the GOP agreed to start talks. Once that happened, it legitimized the Democratic position of shutting down part of the government, in this case TSA, while demanding changes in immigration enforcement. Instead of seeing Democrats shutting down TSA over an unrelated policy dispute, the public saw two sides negotiating and unable to agree. So they blamed everybody when this was, in fact, a Democratic move to cripple the administration's enforcement of federal immigration law.