Senate GOP says Trump signals shift to backing DHS compromise with Democrats

True, but they need control of congress and potentially the presidency to even address underlying issues. A small win is something.

Cool! As a non-corporate Democrat? Here's your replacement, we primaried your ass due to your own inaction. Please get the f*** out of *their* office.

Ice is already funded from the bullshit bill.

Same, bro.  Keep your eyes and ears ready.

You are correct. They probably just sold him some bullshit to get the dhs funding over.

> I don't see how they will pass SAVE Act under reconciliation.  That's the fun part. They won't!

Sen. John Kennedy's idea is to play loose with definitions and terms, and try to argue before the parliamentarian: >Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, had suggested earlier this month trying to pass the SAVE America Act under budget reconciliation to avoid a Democratic filibuster but some Republicans had raised serious doubts about doing so because many of the reforms in the bill are policy-related and not chiefly of a budgetary nature. >“To me, the easiest way to get the SAVE Act passed, the most efficient way, is to try to do it through reconciliation,” Kennedy said on March 9. >“And I know some people say you can’t possibly survive a Byrd Bath,” he added, referring to the procedural test for passing legislation under the budget reconciliation process. “I’ve seen things survive a Byrd Bath that I thought had no chance. … We’ve got some clever wordsmiths. You don’t know what’s gonna survive a Byrd Bath until you can argue your case in front of the parliamentarian.” However, other Republicans are not swayed yet: >Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), a leading proponent of passing the SAVE America Act, said earlier this month that it was not drafted with the intention of passing it under budget reconciliation. >“The way it’s written, it’s nowhere near something that can be done through reconciliation. If John Kennedy or anybody else is aware of a means by which we can do it through reconciliation, obviously I’d love to review that. The bill is not written as a reconciliation bill,” Lee said at the time. >Thune also poured water on the idea of passing the SAVE America Act through budget reconciliation on March 10. >“We’ve looked at that. That’s also very, very difficult. I mean we have tried to see if there’s a way we could thread the needle and use reconciliation and you kind of come back to the same place. Reconciliation obviously is about spending and revenue. And there are ways in which you could do pieces [of the SAVE America Act] but they’d be getting money to the states but then the states could decide whether or not to actually implement the policies,” Thune explained. “We’ve looked at it. There are no easy ways to do this. Believe me.”

.. how is that done through reconciliation..?