via NPR Topics: News — After weeks of start and stop negotiations between Congressional Democrats and the White House, there's an emerging proposal to fund the majority of DHS and tackle ICE enforcement funding separately.

via US news | The Guardian — John Cornyn and Greg Casar debate TSA agent pay outside Austin airport as partial shutdown enters second month Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Republican senator John Cornyn and Democratic congressman Greg Casar of Texas squabbled outside Austin ’s international airport on Monday over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as the shutdown of the agency enters its second month. Cornyn, the longtime Texas senator who is locked in a toug

via The Hill News — Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem on Saturday targeted Democratic lawmakers over their continued refusal to back a funding package for the department in an update about the waste cleanup effort in the Potomac River. Earlier Saturday, President Trump approved Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s (D) request for federal disaster assistance as the…