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Travelerdude Mar 27, 2026 +146

So when Trump tries to maneuver around Congress, Republicans choose to accept the democratic compromise made weeks ago?

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spazz720 Mar 27, 2026 +72

Thune & Cruz were pushing for this deal in the beginning of the week but Trump said “No” because he wouldn’t sign anything without the SAVE Act passing first. Trump then finally realized people were blaming him for the airport situation and not the Dems, so he was demanding that DHS pays the TSA with their extra funds they have (from the one beautiful bill). The Senate then rushed to pass the original compromise BECAUSE if Trump forced the DHS to do this, it sets a precedent where they can’t use it as a future weapon of debate. ALSO it cedes more power of the purse over to the executive branch. Trump obviously was oblivious to the optics of future negotiation strategy, so he relented and will sign the compromised bill.

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showhorrorshow Mar 27, 2026 +18

Also, notably, to retain their position it would mean having to openly oppose his EO and they cant have that, either.

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IScreamPiano Mar 27, 2026 +9

Plus since the funds would have come out of OBBA ICE funding, that would have given Dems more power to drain ICE in a way.

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gdex86 Mar 27, 2026 +3

Ice has funding til 2029, but they are blowing through it at an accelerated rate. They don't have another shot at funding it to reconciliation comes around again.

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drmike0099 Mar 27, 2026 +6

Plus he did an EO “authorizing” funding at the same time so that conservative media can incorrectly give him credit.

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MadRaymer Mar 27, 2026 +6

> ALSO it cedes more power of the purse over to the executive branch. I don't see why this is suddenly a problem for them. Congress is already essentially the chair that faces the bed in hotel rooms.

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nosayso Mar 27, 2026 +3

Wow, would have been better if Trump had actually raided the DHS funding for TSA - if I'm understanding correctly that would have used the crazy amount of money ICE/CBP were budgeted to pay TSA and such instead? So this is Republicans covering for Trump's incompetence to protect the bloated ICE budget from being raided?

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temporarycreature Mar 27, 2026 +34

I think it's more accurate to say this is what the administration that's running the government thinks of us. This is certainly not the way that the Biden administration acted. I think talking like this is what convinces people who don't know any better that the government is bad no matter how they're involved.

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babyjaceismycopilot Mar 27, 2026 +5

Isn't your whole point that we need to not make it the status quo? We will always have a government, how it governs is up to us.

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babyjaceismycopilot Mar 27, 2026 +2

Politics are local. If you want to affect real change, vote locally. Federal politics doesn't nearly have as much of an impact on people's daily lives as they think.

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Bluemanze Mar 27, 2026 +2

Trump is personally having a far greater impact on my life than my local government. The school board isnt looting my retirement fund via Twitter. The water council didnt cause half the small businesses in my area to close due to tariff uncertainty. This is yet another bullshit saying from saner times. Trump is so far up my ass I can taste spraytan.

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babyjaceismycopilot Mar 27, 2026 -3

Your school board does affect on local brain drain which also affect what local businesses are open in your area, including ones that are resilient to tareif issues. Trump's actions DO affect the overall economy, but they are transient. Long term changes comes locally.

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Bluemanze Mar 27, 2026 +2

"Let me come up with a narrower scope than what I originally said so that I can argue that instead while ignoring the fact that Trump gutted the Department of Education last year which ALSO has a far greater long term impact on my local schools than the local school board." Im with the other guy. Listnookors (you) f****** suck.

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babyjaceismycopilot Mar 27, 2026 +1

You're the one that broadened the scope. I was just trying to keep it on track. ALSO, what was the DoE doing in your local school district that the BBoard didn't already control?

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babyjaceismycopilot Mar 27, 2026 +1

You can't have it both ways. You can't say we don't have a say in who are leaders are AND say we need to hold them accountable. According to you we have no power to hold them accountable.

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Beantown-Jack Mar 27, 2026 +11

Everything is shit right now. We are at war. We are adding trillions to the debt. Inflation is back. Millions are losing health care. People are being murdered in the street by ICE. Airports are a nightmare. Everywhere you look, it's a radical right wing Nazi dystopia.

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gramathy Mar 27, 2026 +2

At least the republicans were the ones that caved this time I’ve been so jaded by democrats rolling over and letting things get worse

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Individual_Click5252 Mar 27, 2026 +31

Is this the first time Schumer didn't cave? I am absolutely shocked.

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zirky Mar 27, 2026 +19

there’s still time for an eleventh hour snatch of defeat from the jaws of victory

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Ill_Act_1855 Mar 27, 2026 +14

I mean it has passed the senate, so for now Schumer's part is done. But it'd still need to go through the house, so Johnson could shut it down by not letting it have a vote (I kind of suspect it'd easily pass the house with bipartisan support if it does go to vote) and then it's to Trump and see if he'll chicken out on his threat to veto this if the save bill isn't passed

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Smaynard6000 Mar 27, 2026 +4

Johnson is a f****** coward, he doesn't want all the heat of this mess to be on him if he holds this up in the House. It's going to go to Trump

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Bersho Mar 27, 2026 +5

It passed unanimously in the Senate I’d imagine there’s some full party support that Johnson will continue. There will be some defections for sure cuz the house is the house but I can’t see Johnson going against 52 sitting GOP senators… that said… he is an idiot…

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Ill_Act_1855 Mar 27, 2026 +7

It didn't really pass unanimously in the senate. It passed by a unanimous consent vote where most senators weren't present (there were actually only 5 senators present) by playing around with some of the finer points of senate rules. Actually abusing this loophole was only possible because party leadership from both parties were on board, but there's a number of senators who absolutely would've objected if they were present, and it was done this way largely so things could get passed without people being on record for who's actually for or against it

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Bersho Mar 27, 2026 +2

Oh gotcha. I was wondering why all the articles I was reading were so vague about the vote.

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IScreamPiano Mar 27, 2026 +1

Ohhh, interesting. Thanks for sharing. I just assumed it was 2 in the morning right before recess, so everyone was over it. Do you think any senators are angry with party leadership?

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officer897177 Mar 27, 2026 +1

Trump is about to put boots on the ground in the Middle East, so he’s going to need all the political he can get.

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rougepenguin Mar 27, 2026 +4

Like fuckin clockwork. Goddamn I hope you find your daily dose of disaffection to function, tovarich.

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MikeyLew32 Mar 27, 2026 +2

I wonder what the Baileys told him.

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Basic_Yam_715 Mar 27, 2026 +3

bro that shit right there should get that a****** run right out of congress... how does anyone allow that bullshit?

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FosterFl1910 Mar 27, 2026 +2

ICE was already funded through 2029. If anything has been accomplished here, I’ll all ears. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/03/24/are-ice-officers-getting-paid-dhs-shutdown/89299314007/

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klako8196 Mar 27, 2026 +7

Trump and the GOP were also holding TSA funding hostage to get their voter suppression bill passed.

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FosterFl1910 Mar 27, 2026 +2

Fine, I’ll take that, but that’s not how this shutdown started. It started because Dems wanted ICE reforms, and I don’t believe there’s been any reforms.

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CrapIsMyBreadNButter Mar 27, 2026 -2

It's still a cave. Republicans said that if this passed they'd just pass CBP funding with Budget Reconciliation.

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yaosio Mar 27, 2026 -3

I just wonder why he didn't do anything evil this time. We're missing something because Schumer's ideology is based on doing what's worst for everybody.

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M23707 Mar 27, 2026 +5

So …. ICE can now leave the airports.

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totallybag Mar 27, 2026 +3

Nope because the house refused it and left for their 2 week vacation.

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M23707 Mar 27, 2026 +2

Suprise — they really don’t want to pay TSA workers. [Republicans want TSA TO FAIL - and then privatize it.](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/project-2025-tsa/) Even worse, the person in the White House wants ICE to “run it” — so they can do immigration and bag checks… Folks - it is past time for general strikes to start all across the country. There is NO REASON to not pay TSA workers — NONE.

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Unique-Egg-461 Mar 27, 2026 +3

welp.....so much for this deal seeing that the house freedom caucus refuses to compromise on anything

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BulldogMoose Mar 27, 2026 +2

"Oh no. They took away my gratis premium perks."

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jolars Mar 27, 2026 +2

In after the House just announced they are voting against this... No vote, just an announcement.

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blazze_eternal Mar 27, 2026 +2

House rejected this. Trump had to sign an executive order. Since he has no authority over spending, the order is only a "promise" TSA will get paid, with no real answer on how. [source](https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/trump-says-he-ll-sign-order-to-pay-tsa-agents-as-22154910.php)

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in1gom0ntoya Mar 28, 2026 +1

trump already refused it

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dayglowe Mar 27, 2026 +1

Its unfortunate the Dems couldn't have gotten more - the opportunity was there as Republicans were getting pretty anxious about this issue.

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buttflapper444 Mar 27, 2026 +7

You don't really understand the gravity behind what you're saying. They could not go any longer. TSA agents are out there working in airports without pay, many of them facing eviction, unable to afford groceries, have to beg for scraps of food from local food banks and churches. There's no way they could have gotten any more out of it without harming even more people.

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ArrowsOfFate Mar 27, 2026

They didn’t get ANYTHING. Ice is already fully funded until 2029. Customs and border patrol (CBP) is fully funded until 2029. <- this agency killed Alex Pretti. https://www.propublica.org/article/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez People seem to think it’s only Ice that’s a problem when it’s multiple federal agencies. Democrats were holding the tsa and other programs hostage to impose rules on ice and cbp, which completely failed.

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clean-start-again Mar 27, 2026

Funding money will be illegally redirected to fund ICE. Convince me otherwise.

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TerribleSalamander Mar 27, 2026 +5

ICE is already funded for the next 3 years through the OBBB

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clean-start-again Mar 27, 2026 +1

My point still stands. It's a money pit.

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AcanthisittaNo6653 Mar 27, 2026 -1

Somebody with a bunch of folding chairs could make some serious change renting them for $5/hour.

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