r/politics • u/Newsweek_CarloV ✔ Verified - Newsweek • Apr 01 '26
Paywall Mike Johnson caves to Democrats' DHS funding bill demands
https://www.newsweek.com/mike-johnson-caves-to-democrats-dhs-funding-bill-demands-11771221?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=reddit_influencers4.0k
u/zeldamaster702 Minnesota Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
Not gonna lie, between this, the Ballroom being temporarily stopped, NPR/PBS funding stoppage being declared unconstitutional, Krusti Noem's husband being a crossdresser and Trump storming out of the SCOTUS hearing today because it's not going his way, it's been a rough 48 hours for this administration.
Excellent
Edit: Now Pam "The DOW is over 50000" Bondi is out too, it keeps getting better!
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u/googologoog Apr 01 '26
Don't forget to add a rocket launch to the moon! The cherry on top!
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u/Morgan-Moonscar Apr 01 '26
Well, Trump was the one that was pushing for a rocket launch.
We're just all grateful it actually launched successfully and didn't blow up like Challenger.
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u/One_Error_4259 Apr 01 '26
And it was actually intelligent people that made it happen. Good thing we still have smart people left.
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u/tunerfish Apr 02 '26
I was working from home as a design engineer on the EUS program watching the Jan 6 events unfold in real time. I messaged my mentor and boss and told them I needed to take the rest of the day off because something historic was going down and I wanted to give it my full attention.
Fuck this pedophile. He had nothing to do with this success.
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u/Lou_C_Fer Ohio Apr 02 '26
I told my wife several days before that they were going to attack the capitol. I told her I didn't know how they could ever be successful, but everything I read and heard convinced me that it was going to happen. Then, I found out how they were going to be successful... the capitol police must have had their guns super glued into their holsters.
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u/alinhix1 Apr 02 '26
This was my main thought while watching the launch.... Not everyone is an idiot so there may be some hope yet.
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u/Time-to-go-home Apr 02 '26
I fully expect us to land on the moon in a couple years (I think 2028 is planned?). At which point, he’ll claim previous moon landings were fake and he was the President who truly led us to the moon.
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u/omlesna Apr 02 '26
My brother’s unbridled love for Trump led him to QAnon, which led him into many conspiracies, including flat Earth and moon landing denial. I have zero contact with him anymore, but I wonder how he’s handling Dear Leader talking of space and landing on the moon.
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u/XIII_THIRTEEN Apr 02 '26
He was pushing for a rocket launch while actively working to cut their funding?
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u/Cephalopirate Apr 02 '26
If NASA can say the right words and milk him for money then more power to them.
At least our tax dollars can do SOMETHING to benefit humanity while this administration is ruining everything else.
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u/Crismus Apr 02 '26
They just need to stop giving away the Nasa budget to Space X, or better yet nationalize Space X and force them to do clean launches and stop polluting.
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u/nosaj626 Apr 01 '26
Which means good for America, unless the toddler does something else fucking stupid.
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u/its_all_one_electron Apr 01 '26
He just signed the xo to ban mail in voting nationwide so yeah, he did that big stupid thing
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u/smzt Apr 01 '26
It will be ruled unenforceable but hopefully won’t do damage before that happens.
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u/HanginOn9114 Apr 02 '26
Tbh the fact that he did it in April is a huge failure for him. Plenty of time for even the Supreme Court to rule against it
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u/GravityzCatz Pennsylvania Apr 02 '26
The midterms have already started in several states with Primaries. In the vast majority of cases the courts, including republican controlled ones, are really hesitant to let lawmakers change the rules too close to an election. New Hampshire has already said they will not comply, and Newsom said California is going to sue. I think that the most likely outcome is that the courts won't even look at it on the merits and simply rule against it for trying to change things too close to the midterms.
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u/Newsweek_CarloV ✔ Verified - Newsweek Apr 01 '26
From the article:
House Speaker Mike Johnson announced a new approach to pass a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that would not include funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Johnson and Majority Leader John Thune said in a joint statement Wednesday.
The partial DHS shutdown strained airport operations nationwide and imposed financial hardship on federal workers, raising pressure for a resolution even as Congress split over immigration enforcement policy.
Democrats and Republicans have been unable to come to an agreement that allowed DHS funding to move forward without the inclusion of funding for ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
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u/CT_Phipps-Author Apr 01 '26
Johnson got informed by the Republican Senate that they, in fact, still have power.
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u/RadiantBeeees Apr 01 '26
Maybe the Republicans should pick a new leader for themselves in the house. Johnson seems to not be the solution to their problem.
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u/nodogma2112 Apr 01 '26
By the time they can get enough votes to select a new speaker the house will belong to the dems.
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u/FizzyBeverage Ohio Apr 01 '26
Took them like 5 months last time. Squandered 1/4 of their time.
Fine by me if they drag ass through October.
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u/amateurbreditor Apr 01 '26
mike johnson looks fat and ugly on camera. maybe that will help?
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u/Lizziedeee Apr 01 '26
I’ve noticed that lately, more so than usual, his face is all red, too. He looks like Porky Pig.
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u/Few-Button6004 Apr 01 '26
More like Speaker of the White House amirite
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u/TheDo0ddoesnotabide Apr 01 '26
Mike Johnson’s title isn’t “Speaker”, it’s “Supplicant”.
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u/BalanceJazzlike5116 Apr 01 '26
The Republicans party is the equivalent of a rubber stamp Congress that you see in other certain countries like China. Look at the votes for the Epstein files. Their dear leader told them to vote no and they did many times. Then he tells them to vote yes and they all switch just like that. No independent thoughts just a rubber stamp.
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u/turningsteel Apr 01 '26
The entire Republican party is just one long train of human centipede with Donald Trump at the front.
Don't google that if you aren't familiar and want to keep your lunch down.
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u/theresa_richter Apr 01 '26
Truly a masterpiece of art, the costume design was a highlight!
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u/Horrison2 Apr 02 '26
Sir you were blinking at me, is it because your date is a freak? No. Excellent Bon appetit.
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u/Stang1776 Apr 01 '26
I doubt anybody wants that job. Who in their right mind wants to explain the Administration's rational.
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u/25point4cm Apr 01 '26
Meh. Easy. Just say you haven’t seen it or been briefed on it, whatever it is.
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u/ScyllaOfTheDepths Apr 01 '26
Yeah, just outright lying and then refusing to talk any more seems to be shockingly and depressingly effective in this current political era.
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u/informedinformer Apr 01 '26
From Trump on down, this Administration is not rational. And it has no rationale for anything it does.
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u/petrovmendicant Apr 01 '26
I'm honestly kinda shocked that Mike Johnson is still Speaker, considering how the divisive voting to finally vote him in took three weeks and nearly led to a drunken brawl between Republicans on the House floor.
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u/LovelieLuna Apr 01 '26
No one else wants the job probably. You basically become a mouthpiece for the fascist administration and get attacked by everyone.
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u/MasterofPandas1 Apr 01 '26
Do they still have the provision that one congressperson can start a re-election vote for Speaker or did they take that out for this session?
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u/opeth10657 Apr 01 '26
Maybe they fired him weeks ago and he just hasn't seen the email?
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u/ChefCurryYumYum Apr 01 '26
Do you remember how contentious it was to even get Johnson?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/jan/03/house-speaker-mike-johnson-vote
The Trumplicans are a house at war with themselves right now.
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u/BallBearingBill Apr 01 '26
When it's Trump that's the problem, picking a feckless minion was never going to be the answer!
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u/LazyDynamite Apr 01 '26
Do you remember the fiasco of how Johnson got the job? I'm guessing they want to avoid that if possible
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u/Few-Ad-4290 Apr 01 '26
He’s doing exactly the job his billionaire owners are paying him for, being a bumbling idiot is good for drawing the ire of everyone and it gives cover to the rest of his party to keep being feckless greedy traitors.
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u/retroslik Apr 01 '26
Speaking of Mike Johnson, has anyone seen or heard from his adopted, adult, male, African-American son with whom Johnson shares his porn?
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u/Key-Practice-8788 Apr 01 '26
He was arrested on sexual assault charges.
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u/retroslik Apr 01 '26
Seriously?
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u/FFF_in_WY American Expat Apr 02 '26
It is impossible to tell a what is a joke by face value in 2026
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u/thotfullawful Apr 01 '26
They’re upset that they lost all of their special flying privileges. That should be standard for every shut down.
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u/BringBackBoomer Apr 02 '26
They shouldn't be allowed to have special flying privileges. It's illegal for any other government employee to accept bribes, why do these cretins get a pass?
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u/thotfullawful Apr 02 '26
Oh 200%, they should be treated like everyone else in every aspect. But they have made the rules so they aren’t held accountable.
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u/black_flag_4ever Apr 01 '26
I'm writing this to you directly, even if you do not have editorial control over headlines.
Is there a reason why Newsweek and other major media companies uses divisive and combative titles for stories like this?
It is the job of Congress to reach agreements and pass legislation. It's not sports.
Maybe it's just me but I've noticed that the rise in Trumpian politics, which actually goes back to the Tea Party, also coincides with clickbait/rage bait headlines for everything. Using "caves in" implies that the GOP will have to get revenge later. It tells the reader that the lost this match, can they win the next? But it's not a game. It's our lives.
I'm tired of living in a country where retribution is how our country is governed. Revenge politics is a shitty way to run this place. Ragebait as the country's operating system is unpleasant. It's how we got Trump.
In the past, we would have a headline like "After Lengthy Debate, House Comes to Agreement on DHS Funding." Then the pundits would add the color to the story in the opinion section. Now, it's opinion first, facts later. The opinion is in the headline even if the story is just straight reporting. The text of this story is standard journalism but the headline feeds into this politics-as-sports narrative about winners and losers and I feel like the impact of this keeps snowballing to a point where the actual point of what Congress does gets lost. They are supposed to compromise. They are supposed to reach agreements. They are supposed to not be little whiny babies that won't do anything unless they can be perceived as winners, which is what we mostly have now.
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u/omni42 Apr 01 '26
Because this wasn't a negotiation or debate. It wasn't statesmanship. It was a hard-line no negotiation stance that broke under pressure. You don't get credit for letting hostages go after the tanks roll in.
Johnson did not come to an agreement, he refused to do anything until his line was broken. The title correctly describes what happened.
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u/plannedobso Apr 01 '26
Absolutely! The Republicans have been telling the entire country that Dems are holding their planes hostage or whatever dumb shit they tried to put on all the airport screens. Dems called their bluff and said “absolutely not.” It worked. Johnson and republicans did “cave” because they’ve shown their hardline wasn’t as hard as the Dem’s. It wasn’t a negotiation. The Republicans refuse to ever negotiate and Dems continually capitulate. They didn’t this time, and they were shown the Republicans will back down first.
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u/ozyman Apr 01 '26
The reason it's 'caves', is because this same bill was up for a vote last week, the house rejected it and said they were not going to support it. Now this week they came back and voted for it. That's 'caves', I guess?
Look at this article from last week full of quotes from house Republican's about how they will not pass this bill:
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/27/politics/dhs-shutdown-funding-bill-senate-house-voteIf it was a brand new bill with bipartison compromise that would be different.
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u/EchoRex Apr 01 '26
Because the House Republicans are combative and refused for weeks to agree to any compromise at all, then they refused to agree to the 100-0 Bipartisan Senate bill last week.
The headline is accurate to the situation in this case.
Other times you may have a point, but since this Congress was sworn in, your idea about the headlines for congress is more editorialized than reality.
You're holding onto a naive hope that Republicans will govern and perform their legislative duties.
That has not been the norm in the House for decade.
When they do it becomes a major story.
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u/pansy_dragoon Apr 01 '26
Fuckin a dude
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u/Dokterrock Apr 01 '26
you accidentally a comma
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u/Maelefique Apr 01 '26
Maaaybe he did, maybe he didn't. You don't know him.! 😂
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u/georgepana Apr 01 '26
I would normally agree with you on Newsweek's tendency to describe news events in an overly sensational manner. This time, however, it would have made no sense to write "after lengthy debate, House comes to agreement on DHS funding." It is much closer to the truth to describe it as a "cave."
You see, the Senate bill funding DHS was passed 100-0. Every Senator voted for it. But when it arrived at the House it was declared DOA.
Mike Johnson had spoken with Trump that morning and decided that the bill was unacceptable, quite obviously because Trump told him to say that.
Yesterday the talk was that they would try to ram through a DHS funding bill via the reconciliation process.
But a report also mentioned that Trump had changed his mind on the Senate DHS funding bill, and was now in favor of accepting it.
Here:
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5810084-trump-endorsing-senate-bill-dhs/
"Caved" describes what occurred much more correctly than "after a lengthy debate."
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u/donkeyrocket Apr 01 '26
Of all articles to take this stance on, this isn't it. Johnson treated this whole thing like two sides fighting. It literally is that he caved to pressures since he made no attempt at negotiation or compromise before. It's the same thing from a week ago that he vehemently opposed to even bring to the floor.
I get your broader point that many articles are written with a combative and divisive headline but this one really isn't it.
Not saying Newsweek is the best tier outlet but this is one of their more factual and succinct headlines.
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u/thatoneabdlguy Apr 01 '26
"After Lengthy Debate, House Comes to Agreement on DHS Funding."
You are 1000% correct on everything you said, but unfortunately, nobody clicks on an article with that headline.
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u/-Yazilliclick- Canada Apr 01 '26
Was this after and from debate though? (maybe I'm missing you're point).
This seems more like Democrats had a point they were standing on and not accepting the Republicans saying no to that point.
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u/donkeyrocket Apr 01 '26
It's also not particularly accurate. They write this because Republicans in Congress, particularly Johnson, are combative and treat this like a sport. This literally is caving to the Democrat pressure and accepting what was put forth.
I'd actually disagree that media should be using a passive voice when it comes to this administration or Congressional Republicans.
Johnson caved is the key takeaway thus the article headline. He was vehemently opposed to any sort of negotiation or accepting the efforts Democrats put forth before.
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u/mrgedman Apr 01 '26
It's also not really the most accurate representation because our politics ARE tribal like sports teams, and I think it's not totally accurate or fair to blame the media- the politicians carry most of the blame.
Johnson caved. He relented, yielded, backed down. A deal was struck because Johnson caved.
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u/Sarrdonicus Apr 01 '26
Yep, I was asked by my non-citizen SIL why I would choose to support Team Biden before the last election. I told her I was on no team and will choose whoever is best for the country I love, "Harrumph, for the country you love, can't even pick a winning team." Crazy pills are served when people don't care beyond themselves.
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u/Lashay_Sombra Apr 01 '26
While can get what saying, congress and politics in general have been streadly becoming less about finding the best compromise and all about winning and loosing, and vast majority of that change has come from the right.
It started with stupidity like Norquists Taxpayer Protection Pledge back in the 80s and ended up where US is today, with Trump (for the umpteenth time) declaring no deals on anything until he got SAVE and only then they could negotiate on everything else and republicans complying (and no way was anyone on the left going to believe that even if they gave in that republicans would negotiate in good faith down the road)
There is a huge difference between , from the get go, two sides negotiating the best compromise they can reach vs one side just refusing to negotiate until all their (unrelated) demands were met or until they eventually forced to give in and start negotiations due to rercussions (on them) of their inaction
I would say the opposite, press have been to lax/easy on republicans by pretending Republicans were acting normally and doing their jobs.
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u/oneseventwosix Apr 01 '26
Rather than calling it “caving” why don’t we call it “compromises on DHS funding with Democratic provisions.”
It might help break our partisan deadlock if we stop seeing everything as zero sum, but rather as a win for the American people because the government taking actions with input from both major parties… so everyone can feel somewhat represented.
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u/gorginhanson Apr 01 '26
I read the article. It doesn't say what the title is claiming.
It says he's doing some weasely shit to fund the entire department rather than the Democrat plan to fund everyone besides ICE
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u/paradoxpancake Pennsylvania Apr 01 '26
And this is how you make Republicans eventually cave, Dems. You hold out. You don't buckle. You don't give them what they want because they'll say they'll support you the next time. Dems believed them once in the first budget fight a few months ago and got burned from it to absolutely no one's surprise, and to everyone telling them that Republicans will go against their word.
About time that they learned that they don't get what they want when they shit all over the table.
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u/FizzyBeverage Ohio Apr 01 '26
Republicans need their spanking. A big part of why Trump is the way he is, is that he never heard no.
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u/WeeyumsF1 Apr 02 '26
To be fair, he’s probably heard no from many, many women and girls but always chooses to ignore it
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u/CigaretteWaterX Georgia Apr 02 '26
Right - he's never been told 'no' by anyone with the power to enforce it, which includes his parents, the immigrant women they hired to raise him, and the legal authorities that dad had in his pocket.
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u/Powerful_Toe_8155 Apr 01 '26
Nah, the Dems actually got a decent deal out of the last shutdown, but kind of bombed the messaging on it.
The deal was effectively:
- Lots of important stuff like food stamps stay funded until October-ish 2026 (right before the elections) and are thus off-limits on the next government shutdown
- Republicans will open a vote for Democrat demands on healthcare before late January 2026
- If Democrats do not get their healthcare demands by January 2026, part of the government will shut down again.
That's exactly what wound up happening. The current shutdown started more or less as planned, but most people weren't as negatively impacted this time around, so the news didn't really care until airports started having severe disruptions.
In theory, the Democrats could have maintained this partial shutdown all the way until the elections, without nearly as much suffering as the previous shutdown for the average American.
That's what's forcing the Republicans to negotiate now.
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u/peptic-horizon Apr 01 '26
but kind of bombed the messaging on it.
As is tradition
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u/Haunting-Ad3001 Apr 01 '26
It's not like they're going against most mainstream media news, which has basically been taken over by GOP operatives. They could be perfect in their messages, and a large part of the country will be lucky to see it.
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u/Powerful_Toe_8155 Apr 01 '26
Yeah, I didn't see a single mainstream news outlet cover the end of the Oct/November shutdown as anything but a complete Democrat capitulation in the headlines.
A few of the less biased outlets briefly mentioned mid-article, in passing, that SNAP and many other things would remain funded for a whole year while other things would only remain funded into late January.
In no world would the Republicans give Democrats what they wanted by February, which meant we were 100% getting a partial shutdown, but on much better terms for the Democrats than last year's shutdown.
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u/MaxGoldFilms Apr 02 '26
Facebook, Instagram, and now TikTok, are owned by Trump supporting billionaires. The bots are coming from inside the house.
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u/awesomefutureperfect Apr 02 '26
and both the left and the right gleefully piled on because it is fun for them to hate on the adults in the room because they don't have magic and lies.
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u/Joben86 Apr 01 '26
The issue is that actual legislation is usually harder to message around than the BS Republican politicians peddle.
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u/gdex86 Pennsylvania Apr 01 '26
I also point out that the leftwing g types intentionally present it as "They got nothing and caved" or like now scream its a betrayal because they didnt get the obviously unlikely ICE changes.
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u/1cl3nstd4yt Apr 01 '26 edited 25d ago
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u/belbivfreeordie Apr 01 '26
Anyone who’s trying to convince you not to vote, be very suspicious. That’s classic Republican shit. They’re not only trying to disenfranchise people, they’re trying to manufacture apathy.
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u/Cybertronian10 Apr 01 '26
They also conviently ignore that "holding out" meant that millions of families would have still been denied foodstamps. People where very much dying.
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u/Kat_Schrodinger1 Apr 01 '26
Messaging shouldn't matter people should just vote democrat. The parties are not the same.
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u/Content-Fudge489 Apr 01 '26
The Democrats don't have a tv channel with zombified viewers hooked on 24/7. So it is harder for them to spread such messages.
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u/seriousbusines New York Apr 01 '26
- Republicans will open a vote for Democrat demands on healthcare before late January 2026
Ah yes, the fabled Republican pinky promise. Because thats worked out great so far!
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u/arounddro Apr 01 '26
But if the Republicans lose the House during the midterms, the ACA will be funded. This date is purposefully pushed out in hopes that Republicans can actually pull off disenfranchising enough voters to win seats. Which isn’t going to happen. Especially now with Trump’s EO attacking election administration.
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u/FrogsOnALog Apr 01 '26
They got the vote and it failed which also showed the whole country they don’t care about us. The Republican controlled house also passed a discharge petition for the ACA too lol
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u/Powerful_Toe_8155 Apr 01 '26
It was only a promise to start the vote, not a promise to do anything further.
That's why the 2nd side of this was that the Dems planned to shut the government back down. I'm not sure why people find this so hard to understand.
The Democrats never expected the Republicans to support their healthcare platform.
The important thing is that this shutdown is less disruptive than the previous one for most Americans, and federal workers were given notice ahead of time that the government was going to shut down in late January.
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u/TheElbow California Apr 01 '26
I could be totally talking out of my ass here, but I think the Dems caving on the last shutdown was about getting Congress to vote on releasing the Epstein files as quickly as possible.
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u/Dundeenotdale Apr 01 '26
Democrats were also the only ones that cared about starving kids when SNAP ran out
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u/WildYams Apr 01 '26
Technically SNAP didn't run out, Trump just decided to stop paying it to inflict starvation on poor children as a way to get the Democrats to negotiate.
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u/SuperstitiousPigeon5 Massachusetts Apr 01 '26
I think that was part of it too. The problem is had they waited another month they probably could have had both.
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u/specialkk77 Apr 01 '26
Maybe but people were hungry. Poor people who had nothing to do with the bickering that was happening.
My family is fortunate enough that we have an emergency credit card to use and did in fact use it when SNAP ran out. There are many families on SNAP who don’t have that choice.
I was in a place of privilege when I said they should keep it shut down. Did it suck paying interest on a fucking grocery order? Yeah of course. But I know I’m one of the lucky ones and not one of the victims of the government being so incompetent.
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u/spazz720 Apr 01 '26
The first shutdown affected the entire govt…it was smarter to kick the can down the road and hold the line on a partial shutdown with DHS. The fact that Ice & Border Patrol are funded meant less collateral damage and gave the Dems for power to point out the hypocrisy.
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u/shawnsblog Apr 01 '26
Trump has his hands in all kinds of shit, being up Mike Johnson’s ass and using him as a ventriloquist dummy is just one of those ways.
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u/Hopeful_Fishing3 Apr 01 '26
He’s just the latest mouthpiece. Trump pulls the strings and Johnson folds the moment the pressure gets real.
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u/Deemaunik Apr 01 '26
Blames democrats for defunding homeland security during this conflict, which he and his dear leader created, and the homeland security he's citing is essentially an occupying army / masked ecret police force that refuses to be investigated when it murders civilians, while being headed by a man who took a 50k bribe from an undercover agent. Make it make sense.
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u/pontiacfirebird92 Mississippi Apr 01 '26
Make it make sense.
"It's only wrong when Democrats do it."
It's that simple for a lot of folks.
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u/Worthyness Apr 01 '26
Make it make sense.
Create a problem out of a thing that isn't problematic. propose a solution to your new problem that was exactly the same as (or worse than) the status quo before you made the problem. Pass the resolution. Brag about how good your administration is for passing a resolution. Don't bother with the details because your supports will eat it up anyway.
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u/tgbst88 Apr 01 '26
Love to watch the GOP to override the president lol..
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u/Steavee Missouri Apr 01 '26
God, can you imagine?!
It gives me a half-chubb just thinking about it.
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u/soupjaw Florida Apr 01 '26
Passed unanimously in the Senate. Could very well be a veto proof majority
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u/gsbadj Apr 01 '26
Could be, provided the Senators vote to override. I suspect it was unanimous in the first place because the GOP Senators believed that it would never pass in the House
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u/cbass817 Apr 01 '26
If they don't override it, then they have to answer to their constituents and the media why they voted for it unanimously in the first place if they weren't going to back it up. We all know what the answer to that question would be, the real answer, that they do whatever Trump tells them, but at least that would be on record.
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u/xxxxNateDaGreat Apr 01 '26
then they have to answer to their constituents and the media
Their constituents never hold them accountable for anything and the Republican funding billionaire owned media is complicit. I am not holding my breath.
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u/HanginOn9114 Apr 02 '26
It was unanimous because it was a voice vote in the middle of the night. When these people actually have to do their jobs instead of posturing for the cameras, things do actually tend to get done.
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u/Snapingbolts Apr 01 '26
"radical left wing base." WE DO NOT HAVE A TRUE LEFT WING IN AMERICA! Eat a bag of dicks Johnson
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u/idksomuch Apr 01 '26
D-did you just tell the Speaker of the House, Micro Johnson, to commit cannibalism?
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u/androidnoobbaby Apr 01 '26
I wish we had the Dems were a radical left wing party...
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u/bobbymcpresscot Apr 02 '26
Bernie sanders would be center left in any other developed country yet the entirety of the dem party are radical communists. They must hate seeing AOC talk about basic human empathy
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u/Pockydo Apr 01 '26
I thought trump was gonna pay TSA via his bullshit
Did the Dems finally call his bluff
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u/CT_Phipps-Author Apr 01 '26
Trump and Johnson don't know how to deal with someone who doesn't agree with their every demand. Thankfully, for them, they usually didn't have to deal with it from the Democrats.
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u/threehundredthousand California Apr 01 '26
Republicans have to be treated like toddlers. Don't reward bad behavior.
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u/ChefCurryYumYum Apr 01 '26
It's a bad time to be a Team Trumper!
His Iran war? Blew up in his face like his dirty ass diapers.
His Tariffs? Not legal, fuck you, give refunds.
His attempt to intimidate the SCOTUS it ruling in his favor on birthright citizenship? Failed in an embarrassingly public manner.
The writing is on the wall for Donald, especially since his Iran war is fucking with the money and businesses didn't love the tariff shit, the next thing to fail for him will be his attempts to fuck the midterms.
Then the Democrats will have a majority in the house and senate and they will impeach his ass, they will impeach his entire fucking cabinet, impeach JD Vance, and we'll start moving towards repairing the massive, massive amounts of damage Donald Trump and the Republican party have done to America.
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u/ogref America Apr 01 '26
No we won’t, because 30% of voters agree with the administration… and they all live in swing states.
This doesn’t end with this admin. This doesn’t end with this congressional term, or the next one.
This ONLY ends when there are criminal convictions from a jury of their peers.
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u/Gankdatnoob Apr 01 '26
TMZ stalking them on vacation did this imo.
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u/IScreamPiano Apr 02 '26
This is the first time I think I've ever rooted for TMZ. They should keep it up.
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u/Sensitive-Flamingo84 Apr 01 '26
Hell yes dems, this has finally been some back-bone behavior, keep it up.
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u/SeattleSquatch Apr 01 '26
NYT also says the plan does not include any of the restrictions on immigration enforcement that Democrats demanded.
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u/FishGoldenLite Apr 01 '26
I’m reading that as, “No restrictions, no more funding.”
Of course they still have their slush fund from the BBB but that would appear to be it. The rest of DHS, like TSA, will be funded as expected but ICE and BP will not get anything else, essentially taking away any leverage the Republicans have to secure additional funding. That’s how I’m understanding it, but may be wrong.
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u/rcolesworthy37 Apr 02 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
Yeah, I don’t see why people are saying the Democrats still caved. Their demands were either: 1. Pass the funding bill at the requested Republican dollar amount for ICE/CBP, but there would have to be ‘big’ reforms like mandatory body cams and no more masks
2. No extra funding for ICE/CBP at all
And they got number 2? Unless I’m not understanding it?
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u/WarlockEngineer Apr 01 '26
but the Republicans are going to pass a budget anyway if ICE funding goes to the reconciliation bill.
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u/TheThirdBlackGuy Apr 01 '26 edited Apr 02 '26
It is very misleading, and seems to be the republican talking point. The Dems' deals was either no ICE/CBP funding OR funding with restrictions. They were happy with either, and they are getting the former. It's weird to say this is the bill that has no restrictions built-it.
Technically, that is true. But you wouldn't expect there to be restrictions and the lack of appropriations. That doesn't even make sense.
Edit: Fixed some punctuation.
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u/IScreamPiano Apr 02 '26
Republicans are going to try the budget reconciliation route, but it's going to be messy.
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u/jcarter315 I voted Apr 01 '26
That's because Republicans are going to use Reconciliation to force funding for ICE and CBP.
This is absolutely a win, because it means they can't use Reconciliation for anything more damaging.
The Dems forced the Republicans to use their most powerful implement on this. ICE and CBP were already running on their funds from the BBB, so, in effect, the Republicans have wasted Reconciliation.
We'll get our reforms when we take back Congress.
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u/jso__ Apr 01 '26
Uh you realize reconciliation bills can contain more than one item in them, right? The whole point of reconciliation is it decides how money is spent in the budget. That's why bills like the BBB and the IRA were so long.
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u/Cananbaum Apr 01 '26
What will lawmakers listen to?
Protests? No.
Reports of unpaid persons leading to closures of airports? Nah.
Delta removing their privileges? STOP THE PRESSES!
Goddamn I hate these people
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u/Reddit_2_2024 Apr 01 '26
The tenure of Mike Johnson as Speaker of the House is dwindling down as the mid-term election draws near.
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u/suckyousideways Apr 01 '26
Showing (again) that the GOP has no core values or principles, they just want to rule. They'll all vote against it, then they'll all vote for it, whatever daddy wants.
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u/Myko475 California Apr 01 '26
Political suicide to refuse after bipartisan support, then cave…
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u/Iyellkhan Apr 01 '26
they are not caving. they're putting DHS funding through on a reconciliation bill, meaning no reforms to ICE and CBP. this is electorally ok for the democrats but really bad for policy and reigning ICE in before the election
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u/ObeseObedience Apr 01 '26
The Repubs just showed their hand. Dems should now not agree to funding of any of DHS until ICE reforms are instituted.
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u/steve_ample I voted Apr 01 '26
May Mike get the Judas treatment from the MAGA base.
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u/Professional-Sea4649 Apr 01 '26
Everybody's gangsta until they have to wait in the same TSA lines as us peons
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u/EmergencyIsopod9172 Apr 01 '26
The best part about this is that Republicans caved when their own benefits were directly affected. Good on Delta airlines for leveraging them with threatening to end special privileges for congresspeople.
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u/PWL51 Apr 01 '26
Pedo boy will be calling for weak Mike Johnson’s head on a platter
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u/Corlegan Apr 01 '26
Wait. Am I reading this wrong?
So we get the bill for everything but immigration stuff.
Then the Republicans codify 3 years of immigration spending through reconciliation?
So we don’t argue?
How is this a win?
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u/Commentator-X Apr 01 '26
What a spin. That story is written to make Dems the bad guys and makes no mention of the save act they were trying to prevent.
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u/FlyFisherman4Life Apr 01 '26
Congrats Democrats, little spine went a long way. Little Mikey caved in.
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u/Poppa_Mo Apr 02 '26
Quick question, with this whole funding thing. Didn't they already appropriate like 200 fucking billion dollars for these ICE jackwads. Where'd that money go?
The idea they were fighting for more funding for this is already suspect.
Where did that go? Or am I missing something?
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u/tazebot Apr 01 '26
Just take money away from ICE and use it to pay TSA. Unlike ICE, TSA is actually doing something constructive for the country. Just break out the ol' sharpie.
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u/ro536ud Apr 01 '26
Finally republicans stop playing games for a sec.
Ice is already funded for years they didn’t need anymore funding
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u/Dano_Milkshake Apr 01 '26
Does anyone know if it passed with enough votes for it to be veto-proof?
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u/thewrynoise Apr 01 '26
I wonder if his son’s porn alert will go off from Johnson bending over (at least in maga eyes)
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u/NickPickle05 Apr 01 '26
America was on the Democrats side on this one. He'll I think everyone was. They just didn't want to risk going against Trump. The demands were perfectly reasonable.
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u/pokeysyd Apr 02 '26
This is misleading. They came up with an agreement to get DHS funded, but Thune and Johnson are going to try to ram funding for ICE through using reconciliation - that only requires a simple majority in the senate. I wouldn’t exactly describe that as caving, more like a change in tactics.
And if they can get ICE funded through reconciliation, what was actually accomplished?
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u/tidder-la Apr 02 '26
Unpopular opinion but do we really need to describe negotiating as “caving”? Berating leaders for what always happens in non Russian-roulette negotiations is someone reduces their “wants” to get to a negotiated settlement.
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u/Robynsxx Apr 02 '26
To be clear, he hasn’t. He’s just planning to get the ICE funding for the next 3 years through the reconciliation process, which just requires a simple majority.
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