Border Workers Didn’t Create This Crisis. Trump Says He Won’t Leave Them to Bear It.

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President Trump moved Thursday to shore up the Department of Homeland Security, pledging to use executive authority to ensure pay continuity for thousands of federal workers caught in an unresolved funding gap, while also using the moment to sharpen his attack on Democratic leaders. The Senate passed a DHS funding bill Thursday morning, but House action is not expected until April 13, leaving border patrol agents, immigration enforcement officers, and department employees in a period of financial uncertainty. Trump signaled he intends to bridge that interval himself. “I will soon sign an order to pay ALL of the incredible employees

Republicans Chart Two-Track Path to End Record DHS Shutdown — Without Dems

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The record has now been set. Forty-six days. The longest partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security in American history — longer than any of us had reason to expect, and longer than the country had reason to endure. TSA workers have gone without full paychecks. Airport lines have swelled. And Washington, as it so often does, found new and creative ways to make a solvable problem last. But something shifted Wednesday. Republicans in both chambers, nudged firmly by a president who has grown visibly impatient, announced they are now aligned behind a strategy that could finally bring this

‘Maybe We’ll Let Them Have Easter’ — Trump Floats Rare Special Session to Fix DHS

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President Trump is weighing a dramatic move — compelling Congress to return early from recess to resolve the funding crisis at the Department of Homeland Security. “It’s something that’s under consideration,” he told The New York Post, with a characteristic aside that he might let lawmakers have their Easter first. It would be extraordinary if he did it. The last president to force Congress back was Harry Truman, in 1948. That tells you something about the weight of the moment. The standoff has already stretched toward two months, with DHS workers going without pay and the White House scrambling to

On Iran, President Trump Extends a Hand — and Shows What’s in the Other One

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President Trump said Monday that a deal with Iran was “probably” within reach — then made clear, with characteristic precision, what happens if it isn’t. “The United States of America is in serious discussions with a new, and more reasonable, regime,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, threading optimism with menace in the way only he can. The message was unmistakable: the door is open, but it will not stay open long. If talks collapse, Trump warned, the U.S. would strike Iran’s electric generating plants, oil wells, and Kharg Island — the critical hub through which the vast majority of Iran’s

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