Dems and GOP still divided over DHS funding as deadline looms

Описание: (10 Feb 2026)
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Washington, DC - 10 February 2026
1. Wide of Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer and other senators at briefing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Schumer, (D) Senate Minority Leader:
"The initial Republican response is incomplete and insufficient. It fails to address America's concerns about ICE's lawless conduct. We need to see more from the Republicans, and soon, there's no time to waste."
++BLACK FRAMES++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chuck Schumer, (D) Senate Minority Leader:
"Our proposal simply holds ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents, it's such a simple thing. It's hard to believe they're resisting. We simply hold ICE agents to the same standards American expect from their local police department from coast to coast. To be clear, these guardrails on ICE must apply across the board, including funding for Republicans' so-called Big Beautiful bill. Our reforms must apply to all ICE operations. It would be ridiculous to say some ICE agents have to meet some standards, but others don't because of where the funding came from, and we never even know where the funding would come from. Democrats proudly support law enforcement, but what ICE is doing isn't law and order, it's chaos, plain and simple."
++BLACK FRAMES++
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Catherine Mastow Cortez, (D) Nevada:
"What we're asking is not radical. We want federal law enforcement to be held to the same reasonable standards as state and local law enforcement. That means ending those roving patrols that are detaining U.S. citizens and law-abiding immigrants based on the way they look. Federal agents shouldn't be violating the Fourth Amendment rights and going into someone's home without a judicial warrant. Accountability, including congressional oversight, no masks, clear badge numbers, body cameras. This is where we need to be."
5. Wide of Senate Majority leader John Thune walking to microphone
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. John Thune, (R) Senate Majority Leader:
"Our view is we need to try and get this last bill across the finish line, and I think there have been some really productive conversations around that between Republicans and Democrats, between the White House and Democrats here in the Senate. One thing Republicans are not interested in, obviously, is making it harder, not easier for dangerous aliens in this country to be detained and deported. We do believe in making it easier not harder for law enforcement officials to do their jobs so those are things that we are focused on these conversations but i think it's fair to say that There have been good faith efforts The Democrats, you know, they didn't finally get text available until just this weekend the White House is now responding to that and I think its important that we allow those conversations to go forward and see if there might be a path toward getting an outcome that would fund the Department of Homeland Security until the end of the fiscal year, which is September 30th."
7. Pull-out as Thune walks away from microphone


STORYLINE:
Divisions remain between Democrats and Republicans over funding for the Department of Homeland Security as time is running short, with a possible shutdown of DHS to begin Saturday.

Democratic leaders say a proposal from the White House is “incomplete and insufficient” as they demand new restrictions on President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.



"Accountability, including congressional oversight, no masks, clear badge numbers, body cameras," said Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto. "This is where we need to be," she said.






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