{"id":3686,"date":"2026-09-08T05:09:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3686"},"modified":"2026-09-08T05:09:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:09:17","slug":"the-white-house-says-it-sent-a-new-serious-counter-offer-on-dhs-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3686","title":{"rendered":"The White House Says It Sent a New \u2018Serious Counter Offer\u2019 on DHS Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>As Transportation Security Administration workers and other employees at the Department of Homeland Security are set to miss paychecks this week, conversations between Senate Democrats and the White House to reopen the agency remain at an impasse<b>.<\/b><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3684\">Wife of USS Lincoln Sailor Says He\u2019s Facing Discipline for Apparent Suicide Attempt<\/a><\/p><p>The White House says it sent a new \u201cserious counter offer\u201d putting the ball back into Democrats\u2019 court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe White House has made another serious counter offer,\u201d a White House official told NOTUS in a statementThursday. \u201cDemocrats need to make a move to end the shutdown before more Americans are harmed by a lack of funding for critical services like disaster relief.\u201d<\/p><p>Meanwhile, Senate Democrats on Tuesday blocked funding for the department for the second time, and are showing no sign of budging on their demands that reforms to immigration enforcement operations be included in the agency\u2019s funding bill.<\/p>\n<section>\n<div>\n<h2>\n<span>Trending<\/span>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium_large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pregnancy\" class=\"wp-image-3594\" height=\"512\" 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Andy Kim, a Democrat from New Jersey, told NOTUS on Thursday before the White House sent the counteroffer that Democrats would continue to vote against the package until it included several policy changes, including requirements for judicial warrants, limits on officers wearing masks and an end to roving patrols.<\/p><p>\u201cNegotiation takes two sides, and as far as I\u2019m seeing, I\u2019m not seeing real intentionality and purpose coming from the other side,\u201d Kim said. \u201cAfter that State of the Union, I think it\u2019s crystal clear, this is a president who is perfectly happy weaponizing parts of our government against the people.\u201d<\/p><p>President Donald Trump briefly acknowledged the shutdown in his State of the Union address Tuesday, calling on Senate Democrats to end the funding lapse.<\/p><p>\u201cTonight, I\u2019m demanding the full and immediate restoration of all funding for the border security, Homeland Security of the United States, and also for helping people clean up their snow,\u201d Trump said, referring to the recent storm on the East Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the White House counteroffer, Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Thursday morning expressed some optimism that limits on travel and pay would allow negotiations to turn the corner soon.<\/p><p>\u201cThere\u2019s a path, there has been for some time, there\u2019s just got to be a sense of urgency,\u201d Thune said Thursday. \u201cI think that\u2019s going to start coming as some of these agencies start seeing people who aren\u2019t getting paid, or programs aren\u2019t being funded.\u201d<\/p><p>The agency announced earlier this week that it would suspend TSA PreCheck and Global Entry, a program that expedites arrival into the United States, through the duration of the shutdown, but officials quickly reversed the decision to pause TSA PreCheck.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3681\">Missouri Group Asks the Supreme Court to Let Former District Maps Stand<\/a><\/p><p>DHS officials made those changes after Senate Democrats sent the White House the latest iteration of their demands last week. The <span><u>Federal Emergency Management Agency\u2019s Disaster Relief Fund is also running low<\/u><\/span>, and the Trump administration announced it was freezing disaster aid to long-term recovery projects.<\/p><p>\u201cIt\u2019s not \u2018they\u2019re stuck,\u2019 but they\u2019re, at the moment, slow moving,\u201d Thune said, referencing the ongoing negotiations. \u201cI\u2019m hoping they\u2019ll get unstuck soon, but there\u2019s always hope of a breakthrough.\u201d<\/p><p>Most Senate Democrats said that conversations about DHS funding on Capitol Hill had slowed while they were waiting on a response from the White House. Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, had told reporters Wednesday that Democrats were waiting for the Trump administration to engage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe told them what our priorities were,\u201d Murray said. \u201cThey answered back with a very, very weak, limited response, and we said, \u2018No, this is what our requests were.\u2019\u201d<\/p><p>Sen. Chris Murphy, the ranking member on the Senate Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee, also told NOTUS on Thursday that progress prior to the White House\u2019s response had been limited.<\/p><p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been pretty diligent about giving them proposals and compromises, and we get nothing, virtually nothing back,\u201d Murphy said.<\/p><p>Some Democrats had previously floated the idea of separating funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement from the budget for the rest of the agency, which includes the Coast Guard and FEMA. But Thune said that tactic does not have support among Senate Republicans.<\/p><p>\u201cWe think the package should move all of those agencies that are under that appropriations bill,\u201d Thune said. \u201cI\u2019m sure the Democrats would love to do that, but they all need to move together.\u201d<\/p><p>Sen. Chris Van Hollen told reporters prior to the Trump administration\u2019s counteroffer that he did not expect the White House to engage seriously with Democrats\u2019 demands. He added that the only path forward was for the White House to present \u201csomething meaningful\u201d to address ICE operations.<\/p><p>\u201cThey haven\u2019t really responded to the reforms that we insisted upon in reining in ICE,\u201d Van Hollen said. \u201cThey don\u2019t want accountability. They don\u2019t want independent accountability. They want to be able to engage in sort of mass arrests and detentions.\u201d<br\/><\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3677\">Suspect Identified in Attack on Ohio Gubernatorial Candidate Amy Acton<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Homeland Security is headed into the third week of a shutdown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The White House Says It Sent a New \u2018Serious Counter Offer\u2019 on DHS Funding - Modern Home Journals<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/modernhomejournals.com\/?p=3686\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The White House Says It Sent a New \u2018Serious Counter Offer\u2019 on DHS Funding - 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