Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., suggested that Republicans could tackle the Minnesota fraud scandal through budget reconciliation. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., noted that Senate Democrats weren’t looking for another shutdown last week and said that "Democrats want to fund the appropriations, the spending bills, all the way through 2026."
"We want to work in a bicameral, bipartisan way to do it and the good news is our Republican appropriators are working with us," Schumer told ABC Sunday morning.
While the successful procedural vote acted as a good sign for final passage of the package, it doesn’t mean that lawmakers are completely out of the woods when it comes to preventing another shutdown.
They have until Jan. 30 to fund the rest of the government, and some in the Senate believe that they won’t have time to finish their work before the deadline. That means another continuing resolution (CR) will likely be in the cards.
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said a short-term funding bill is inevitable.
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Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., said he wants to see constraints built into the DHS bill that deal with Border Patrol. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
"The DHS bill is always one of the most difficult ones," Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said. "And creates more, seems like more of a kind of a political conflict of all the appropriations bills."
Following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minnesota last week, that political division reached another level.
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Committee, argued that what happened to Good "has crystallized for the American people the real danger that exists out there in the way that ICE and [Customs and Border Protection] are operating."
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Murphy suggested that he would want to see constraints built into the DHS bill that deal with CBP, such as beefed up training for officers.
"I understand we have to get Republican votes," Murphy said. "So I'm not proposing we fix this overnight, but I think it should be clear to Republicans that if they want Democratic votes for a DHS appropriations bill, they're going to have to work with us on our concerns. That's how the Senate works."
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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