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Senate Republicans believe that President Trump is willing to accept a potential deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security following a White House meeting on Monday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It would be a significant shift for Trump, who over the weekend repeatedly he would not make a deal with Democrats unless they moved separate voting legislation known as the SAVE America Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Trump signaled he is open to a deal to reopen the Homeland Security Department even if it doesn\u2019t fully fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during a two-hour meeting at the White House Monday evening, according to GOP senators briefed on the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Senate Republican source familiar with the discussion said Trump is willing to separate funding for the Enforcement and Removal Operation from the Homeland Security appropriations bill in order to get enough Democratic support it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the proposal presented to Trump, Senate Republicans would pass additional money for ICE\u2019s removal operations under the budget reconciliation process, which allows them to circumvent a Democratic filibuster in the Senate as long as the legislation being considered meets certain requirements related to the spending, taxation or deficit reduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Senate Republicans told Trump that they would also attempt to pass elements of the SAVE America Act, which Trump has called his No. 1 legislative priority, in the follow-up reconciliation bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think we showed him that we can run a parallel process where we can fund DHS now and have a second reconciliation bill that would put a down payment on some of the SAVE [America] Act,\u201d said a person familiar with the meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republican senators who met with Trump later briefed Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) at the Capitol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), the chair of the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, told reporters as she returned to the Capitol from the White House meeting that Republicans feel they have a path to ending the Homeland Security shutdown, which will reach its 39th day on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe do,\u201d Britt said when asked whether the group that met with Trump has a solution to ending the stalemate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senators felt they landed in a \u201cpretty good spot\u201d with Trump after the lengthy meeting, according to the person familiar with the discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

White House border czar Tom Homan, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, who runs much of the administration\u2019s immigration enforcement policies, and newly confirmed secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin attended the meeting, according to sources familiar with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Britt met with Trump along with Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), and Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio), who all have good relationships with the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graham, however, was tight-lipped about the prospect of whether Trump would agree to break up the Department of Homeland Security funding bill to reopen the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and other critical agencies, such as the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Coast Guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll see what happens,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m not going to say anymore, so leave me alone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senate Republicans had presented a similar proposal to Trump over the weekend, when they suggested setting aside funding for ICE to allow the rest of the Homeland Security appropriations bill to pass under regular order and then use the budget reconciliation process later this year to add more money for immigration enforcement operations later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Trump emphatically rejected that offer this weekend in a private conversation and later panned the idea in an interview with NewsNation and a follow-up post on Truth Social.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think any deal should be made on this until they approve Save America,\u201d he told NewsNation\u2019s Hannah Brandt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then Trump doubled down on that position in a post on Truth Social, writing: \u201cI don\u2019t think we should make any deal with the Crazy, Country Destroying, Radical Left Democrats unless, and until, they Vote with Republicans to pass \u2018THE SAVE AMERICA ACT.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thune on Monday afternoon called Trump\u2019s demand to hold off on passing a deal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security until Democrats agree to the sweeping voting reform bill now pending on the Senate floor was not \u201crealistic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said there\u2019s \u201calmost unanimous agreement in our conference on the policy\u201d of the SAVE America Act but warned \u201cthe idea that we would have to guarantee its passage in order to open up the government\u201d is \u201cnot a realistic outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senate Republicans are feeling immense pressure to end the Homeland Security funding stalemate as hours-long security lines are causing chaos at major airports in Houston, Atlanta, St. Louis and other cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMillions of Americans right now are facing two-, three-, four-hour waits at airports. They\u2019re missing their planes for spring break because the Democrats refuse to pay TSA,\u201d said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who was one of the first Republicans to propose breaking up the Homeland Security funding bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some Senate Democrats said they were encouraged by what they heard from their Republican colleagues about the meeting at the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats earlier this month proposed passing the Homeland Security funding bill but setting aside the portion of the bill funding ICE until they reach a deal with the White House and GOP leaders in Congress to reform immigration enforcement operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI really like the direction we\u2019re heading,\u201d said Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe got to get this resolved,\u201d he said of the five-week partial government shutdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said Democrats major problems with \u201cthe ICE practices but we really want to open TSA and we want to open FEMA.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe FACT that there is progress is very encouraging,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is significant movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have a dispute about ICE practices. We don\u2019t have a dispute about funding TSA, we don\u2019t have a dispute about funding Coast Guard or FEMA,\u201d he added. \u201cThe real issue is the ICE and the ICE practices. They were lawless and what happened in Minneapolis is shocking and should never happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DHS shutdown began in February, after Democrats said they could not fund ICE following the killings in January, in separate incidents, of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolisy by DHS personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Graham told The Hill on Friday that he\u2019s open to moving another reconciliation bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security or to fund military operations against Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m open to use the reconciliation process to make America safer and break this long jam,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said he hoped that House Republicans would unify behind a reconciliation package to help Trump carry out his efforts on nationwide immigration enforcement and border security operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHopefully our guys will rally around the idea we need to get the money to secure our borders,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTo me, the easiest way to get the SAVE Act passed, the most efficient way, is to try to do it through reconciliation,\u201d Kennedy said on March 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd I know some people say you can\u2019t possibly survive a Byrd Bath,\u201d he added, referring to the procedural test for passing legislation under the budget reconciliation process. \u201cI\u2019ve seen things survive a Byrd Bath that I thought had no chance. \u2026 We\u2019ve got some clever wordsmiths. You don\u2019t know what\u2019s gonna survive a Byrd Bath until you can argue your case in front of the parliamentarian.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe way it\u2019s written, it\u2019s 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\u2019d love to review that. The bill is not written as a reconciliation bill,\u201d Lee said at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thune also poured water on the idea of passing the SAVE America Act through budget reconciliation on March 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve looked at that. That\u2019s also very, very difficult. I mean we have tried to see if there\u2019s 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\u2019d be getting money to the states but then the states could decide whether or not to actually implement the policies,\u201d Thune explained. \u201cWe\u2019ve looked at it. There are no easy ways to do this. Believe me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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