The House on Tuesday passed the funding package — five full-year funding bills plus a two-week continuing resolution to fund the Department of Homeland Security — effectively ending the partial government shutdown. The legislation will now head to President Donald Trump’s desk.
After spending most of Monday saying they will tank the funding package unless leadership attaches the SAVE Act — a bill that aims to stop noncitizens from voting in elections, something that is already illegal in federal elections — to the minibus, a handful of far-right House Republicans changed course. The reversal came after a Monday afternoon meeting with the White House.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), who is seemingly leading the SAVE Act push, said the holdouts received an assurance from Trump that Senate Republicans would force Senate Democrats into a “standing filibuster” on the SAVE Act — a maneuver that would require Senate Democrats to hold the floor continuously to block a bill, rather than the regular process of not providing the 60 votes needed to overcome the filibuster.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said on Tuesday no commitments on the issue were made.
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If you work for the public, you are accountable to the public. Your home address and your username on the dating apps might be considered private, but your name and face are not. Certainly not while you’re doing the work at the public.
So, Republicans want to “pass a law” that “noncitizens” cannot vote in Federal elections. This ought to be grounds to vote them out, since this has already been the law of the land for centuries.
Somebody ought to tell their constituents about it.
Here’s the thing for me:
The existing red Reprehensibles aren’t blind to what happened in Texas this weekend with the two special elections. They can’t be blind to it, because it’s coming for them.
Massie will probably lead a small contingent of colleagues that are smart enough to see the handwriting on the wall that says they may be looking for work in early 2027 because they’re getting kicked out in 2026.
We don’t need many to switch sides on this and it’s real popular in public opinion on both sides of the aisle. I know they have the power to disappoint us yet again and the seven Dems that did the deed two weeks ago have most likely gotten an earful. I don’t count on Jeffries to do the right thing with his caucus, even though more recently he’s been a bit fired up.
But this thing has to drag on for a bit and the Dems have to get the things they want out of this if it’s going to pass. No more of this, well, pass it now and we’ll talk later. No, sir.
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“even the short-term CR negotiated by their colleagues in the Senate.”
Which, by the way, should be understood by every sane person on this planet as the abysmal failure and betrayal that it was.
A gov’t turned on its people MUST NOT be funded. Period. I am not a monster. I am not throwing anyone under the bus or failing to consider the ramifications of a prolonged shutdown battle over the funding of a rogue paramilitary ethnic-cleansing force. None of the people who are most vulnerable and would be first to feel the pain of a protracted shutdown will be any better off if a gov’t turned on them receives funding to act out its plans to abuse them further. It would be our responsibility to fill the gaps as their community members, but funding SHOULD NOT have happened. In fact, the funding DHS/ICE/CBP already has should be clawed back.
Instead of “you shall not pass” we have a Dem Senate caucus led by Chief Flower Girl Schumer sprinkling petals on the ground for the KKKristofascists’ jackboots to goose-step on while they march towards permanent rulership via apartheid and plutocracy.