Congressional Democrats sent a counteroffer to the White House and Republicans in negotiations to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, a spokesperson for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday night.
Schumer, D-N.Y., and other Democrats are locked in negotiations with President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans about imposing new restrictions on federal immigration agents in exchange for funding DHS. The agency shut down early Saturday morning after two weeks of stopgap funding ran out.
The negotiations over DHS funding are heightened after federal immigration agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens during an immigration surge in Minneapolis. Democrats demanded that DHS funding be stripped from a package appropriating money for a handful of other agencies in the wake of the shootings and forced negotiations on immigration enforcement.
The Trump administration has since said it would wind down the Minneapolis operation.
Democrat didn’t say what’s in their counteroffer. Schumer’s office didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment on details of the proposal.
