Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-Md.) acknowledged Sunday that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may lose funding later this week, amid a stall in negotiations on immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe may well have a shutdown. I\u2019m not sure how it\u2019s going to play out,\u201d Ivey told host Chris Stirewalt on NewsNation\u2019s \u201cThe Hill Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Funding for DHS is set to lapse on Saturday upon the expiration of a two-week continuing resolution (CR) Congress passed last week. The short-term funding measure was part of a larger spending package that also included funds for five other agencies through September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Democrats, who are reluctant to back another short-term CR to keep DHS open, have proposed a number of reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), housed within DHS, in the wake of the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among those guardrails are requirements that federal immigration officers obtain a judicial warrant before entering private property, expanded training requirements, an adoption of a standardized use of force policy and a ban on officers wearing masks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese are common sense solutions that protect constitutional rights and ensure responsible law enforcement,\u201d Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) wrote in a Feb. 4 letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ivey concurred with Schumer and Jeffries, saying Sunday that the reforms are \u201cbasic requirements that 18,000 police departments across the country\u201d follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not asking for anything that the police departments [don\u2019t] already do,\u201d the Maryland Democrat added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But Sen. Katie Britt (Ala.), the lead GOP negotiator on the talks, called the Democrats\u2019 list of reforms \u201ca ridiculous Christmas list of demands for the press\u201d and \u201cNOT negotiating in good faith\u201d last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That raises the odds of a DHS shutdown in days, which would impact a host of agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Transportation Security Administration, Coast Guard, Secret Service, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, ICE and CBP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n