Trump to Congress: End DHS shutdown or face 'very drastic measures'
Lawmakers are stalled on funding the Department of Homeland Security as airport delays mount.
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President Donald Trump at a cabinet meeting Thursday urged Congress to find a quick resolution to the Department of Homeland Security shutdown that's leading to increasing headaches for air travelers. "They need to end the shutdown immediately, or we'll have to take some very drastic measures," Trump said from the White House . He didn't describe what measures he would take or detail his role in negotiations to resume funding DHS. The DHS shutdown has dragged on for more than a month and has disrupted air travel . Transportation Security Administration agents are going without pay and are missing work in large numbers, leading to long lines at airports and increased pressure on lawmakers to find a deal. Read more CNBC politics coverage Trump says Iranian negotiators ‘better get serious soon, before it is too late’ Reps Ro Khanna and Tim Burchett to push fraud probe across all 50 states Prediction market bets on sports, election, war would be verboten under new legislation A group of Senate Republicans met with Trump at the White House of Monday and came out with what they heralded as a compromise proposal : funding for 94% of DHS, except for the enforcement and removal arm of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But Democrats — who have withheld their support for funding the agency since February, not long after federal agents killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis during an immigration crackdown — dismissed the proposal because it did not contain the ICE operational changes they had long sought. Those changes include requiring immigration agents to acquire judicial warrants before entering private property and banning the use of masks. Republicans roundly rejected a Senate Democratic counteroffer on Wednesday that included some of those proposals. In addition to extending the shutdown, the negotiations standoff raises the specter of cutting into a scheduled two-week recess that was supposed to begin at the end of this week. Senate Majority Leader John Thune , R-S....
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