Today’s notice: Selling the DHS shutdown deal. A scoop about AIPAC. Strategery in Iowa and Georgia. Republicans back Trump’s troop deployments. Citizens whose families have been swept up in deportation sweeps go to the Hill. And: Flying while elected.
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DHS shutdown sales pitch: Senate Republicans are trying to convince Donald Trump they are giving him everything it is actually possible to give in their fight with Democrats over funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
But some conservatives are not buying the plan pitched by Senate negotiators: First, fund the entire department except for ICE; then, Republicans would attempt a reconciliation bill after the upcoming spring recess that would give ICE its money and include some provisions in the SAVE America Act. “I think it’s hard to do that,” Sen. Rick Scott said.
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Still, Republicans are hoping to stay on Trump’s good side until the end of this week, NOTUS’ Al Weaver reports, with the hopes of keeping their recess intact. Part of lawmakers’ Monday afternoon pitch to the president, according to a source familiar with the meeting: “Let’s solve the immediate issue of long TSA lines at a time where there’s a significant threat assessments [to the] country with the war in Iran,” and then best the Democrats in reconciliation.