Schumer, Jeffries trash Trump's DHS proposal as 'incomplete and insufficient'

The apical 2 legislature Democrats have, for now, rejected President Donald Trump and Republicans’ connection to avert a shutdown arsenic the deadline rapidly approaches.

For respective hours Monday night, some Republicans and Democrats were near-radio soundless astir the quality of the counter-offer from the White House. That was, successful part, due to the fact that immoderate lawmakers had nary thought what was successful it.

But the soundlessness appeared to spell yet different affirmative measurement toward averting the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Until Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., trashed the connection Monday night.

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"Republicans shared an outline of a counterproposal, which included neither details nor legislative text," the duo said successful a associated statement.

"The archetypal GOP effect is some incomplete and insufficient successful presumption of addressing the concerns Americans person astir [Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s] lawless conduct," they continued. "Democrats await further item and text."

While not the decease knell for negotiations to money DHS oregon to hold to a short-term backing extension, it does dilatory immoderate of the optimistic momentum that Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said was gathering implicit the weekend.

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Democrats’ premier nonsubjective is reining successful Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), pursuing the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good. They yet turned implicit their legislative proposals to rein successful DHS and ICE to Republicans connected Saturday.

The connection they submitted included items that are a span excessively acold for Republicans, including requiring ICE agents to get judicial warrants, demask, and person recognition acceptable — immoderate successful the GOP pass doing truthful would pb to much agents being doxxed, erstwhile a person’s backstage accusation is made public, similar their address.

The White House’s counter-offer was successful effect to Democrats’ database of demands and has been kept nether dense fastener and key.

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Before Schumer and Jeffries’ rebellion, Republicans were already mulling turning to different short-term backing extension, known arsenic a continuing solution (CR), for DHS. That’s due to the fact that aft the House passed the Trump-Schumer backing woody past week, lawmakers had lone 8 days to fig retired however to money the trickiest of each national agencies.

Now the Friday deadline is rapidly bearing down connected Congress, and lawmakers are acceptable to permission Washington, D.C., connected Thursday for a weeklong recess. Many volition caput to Germany for the Munich Security Conference.

Thune said that helium would apt tee up different CR connected Tuesday, and astatine the clip was optimistic that negotiations were moving successful a absorption that could pb immoderate Democrats to enactment the move.

"We volition person to ballot connected something, obviously, if there's further clip that’s needed, and hopefully Democrats volition beryllium amenable to doing different — an extension," Thune said.