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Grieving Covid Losses, Five Years Later
In April 2020, when Sara Rochon lost her oldest brother to Covid, her grief felt all-consuming.
From her home in Florida, Ms. Rochon was pained by thoughts of her brother’s last days, alone without his wife, children and siblings in his hospital room in Ohio. In those early, paralyzing weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, Ms. Rochon could not attend his funeral, a gathering limited to only a handful of immediate family members who lived nearby.
“It was unbearable,” she said.
Five years later, Ms. Rochon still thinks of her brother, Joseph Hanna, nearly every day.
But her grief has changed shape. Now when Mr. Hanna pops into her head, she remembers his face cracking a grin, his shock of thick white hair, his six-foot-one figure striding into a room.
This grief led to changes in her own life. Ms. Rochon, a retired teacher, decided to move back to Ohio, to be closer to her family.
“I can think of him with a smile and not a tear,” she said. “My grief hasn’t gone away. It’s just different.”
More than 1.2 million Americans died in the coronavirus pandemic. For their grieving families, the fifth anniversary of the pandemic’s beginning is an aching reminder of what they have lost.
Rituals were upended. Families were robbed of the ability to care for their loved ones, which, under normal circumstances, can help ease their emotional pain. The deaths themselves were often endured from a distance, with nurses holding up iPads to allow the sick to say goodbye to their relatives and spouses. And afterward, families were left to congregate and remember their loved ones by Zoom.
“It was a perfect storm of all the bad things,” said Holly Prigerson, chair of diagnostics in radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and a longtime researcher on grief.
Just as Covid continues to affect people who are older or have underlying health conditions, it also still has a hold on bereaved families, five years on.
In interviews, many people say they are still mired in anger and crushing grief, unable to forget the particular cruelty of the pandemic: that their spouses, relatives and close friends often died alone.
Some mourners have found light after darkness. Since the pandemic, they have grown closer with their families and friends, embraced their own lives with more vigor and purpose, or turned to music or writing as a way to stitch themselves back together.
Still others say they are occupying a middle ground of grief.
Mary Anna Ball, a graduate student who lost several close family friends to Covid in her home state of West Virginia, said that she felt as though she would never catch up with her own mourning.
“It still feels kind of incomplete,” she said. “It doesn’t feel like there is that closure on any of it.”
Cleaved in Two
In Ann Arbor, Mich., Lisa Murray is still grieving her mother-in-law, Sandy Gatti, who died from the virus in February 2021.
Ms. Murray is no stranger to loss. Her own mother died in hospice in 2023, but that passing came peacefully, with family present.
“Sandy’s death stands out to me,” she said. “It feels like the hole has not closed, the wound has not closed. There’s this sense of injustice. Her death was so unnecessary. She was so close to getting a vaccine.”
Joy Netanya Thompson, an editor at a tech company in La Verne, Calif., lost her father to Covid in the summer of 2020, and then her beloved grandmother six months afterward.
“It feels so unmooring to lose a parent,” Ms. Thompson said. “It really feels like a part of you has been erased from the earth. And that was very profound.”
But it was the way Ms. Thompson’s father died — the isolation after weeks in the hospital — that made her grief linger, years later. She felt that her life had been cleaved in two: Before Grief and After Grief.
When her grandfather died in hospice care in 2023, she immediately felt the stark contrast between how he and her father spent their final days.
“I got to say goodbye to him,” Ms. Thompson said of her grandfather. “I got to hold his hand a couple different times in the last couple weeks. I got to tell him everything I wanted to tell him. And then we got to have a big memorial service and celebrate him. So I got to see the difference when you get to do the normal rituals.”
Looking Back in Anger
Like many Covid mourners, Amy Morris, 52, is still fighting one powerful emotion: anger.
Ms. Morris, who lives in Charlotte, N.C., watched helplessly from afar in late 2020 as her mother, Ilene Craft Boger, 85, fell ill in her assisted living facility and was transferred to a hospital. Ms. Boger, an accomplished jazz pianist who dressed impeccably, died a month later.
“The manner of her death still fills me with such rage that it takes my breath away,” Ms. Morris said.
Brian Owens, an artistic director in the film industry, has lost two aunts, an uncle and a nephew because of Covid.
He still feels a mix of frustration and grief. Though Mr. Owens’s family was in the United States, he was living in Canada, where Covid restrictions were far more stringent.
“You went to the grocery store and that was about it,” he said. “So that comparison added a layer of anger to the whole thing for me. I feel like so many of those deaths were preventable and we just didn’t prevent them.”
Others who lost relatives to the virus said they were dogged by lingering guilt.
Arjun Jalan, who lives in Boston, thinks about his father, far away in India.
Mr. Jalan’s mother, known in the family as a phenomenal hostess and cook, died in 2021, leaving his father widowed. For a long time, Mr. Jalan could not bear to look at photos of his mother. His father urged him to keep moving forward, to not worry about him or his loneliness.
Writing Your Way Through It
Before the pandemic, Nicholas Montemarano’s identity was wrapped around his love of fiction. He read relentlessly, wrote novels and taught creative writing at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa.
But when his mother, Catherine, died of Covid in January 2021, Mr. Montemarano found himself turning to poetry instead. He wrote a memoir, an elegy to his mother, in verse.
I’m trying to make my bed and brush my teeth.I’m trying to remember her voicebefore her lungs quit. Song sparrows fly twigsto the flowerbed outside my window.This morning in overgrown grass under light rain,a butterfly alighted on my face.
He is one of many Covid mourners who have discovered more personal ways to resolve their grief.
For Kim Lowe, a filmmaker in Boston, that relief was found after the pandemic left a gaping hole in her sprawling family in Massachusetts.
Ms. Lowe’s mother died during the pandemic in 2021, though doctors could not determine the cause. Then all four of her mother’s siblings fell ill and died within the next two years, two from Covid and two from what Ms. Lowe called “collateral Covid” — when they could not easily see a doctor and saw their health falter as a result.
“It felt like an entire generation had been wiped out,” she said. “It was physical pain, it was mental pain, it was all-encompassing grief.”
Ms. Lowe has fought through much of her grief by leaning on her own generation, the cousins who live around the Boston area. Together, they have written down their family stories and history, including a beloved recipe for Portuguese soup — one that her mother’s generation kept only in their heads.
On the fifth anniversary of the pandemic, Ms. Lowe feels like a changed person.
“I felt as if I was given a gift of perspective and love and gratitude,” she said. “I make people feel so awkward because I’m always telling them how much I love them and appreciate them. I’m so much more loving and present.”
Gwendolyn W. Williams, who lives in Los Angeles, last saw two of her closest friends on Christmas Eve in 2019, when she made her usual 45-minute drive to their assisted living home for a visit.
Both friends contracted Covid and died — only eight days apart — when the virus swept through the facility in 2020.
Today, Ms. Williams said she moves through life a little differently. She was always devoted to her friends, some close enough to feel like family. But now even a passing thought can prompt her to call or text someone.
“I don’t let the moment pass me by,” Ms. Williams said. “You do what you can for people, you love when you can do it.”
Seth Bodnar, the former president of the University of Montana, is now running for Senate as an independent
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BUTTE, Mont. – It’s long been an adage in Montana politics that if you’re running for office, you’d better have a float in the Butte St. Paddy’s Day Parade, which draws thousands to the mining city’s historic uptown, soaking up the nostalgia – and the Guiness.
Here, you’re just steps from the towering old mining headframes and the one mile long and half mile wide Berkeley Pit. Now shuttered, it was once one of the world’s largest copper deposits.
Larry Carden, in a Notre Dame sweatshirt, never misses the parade.
“You’ll see a lot more boos for the Republicans than you will the Democrats, I can guarantee you that,” he says.
That’s a nod to Butte’s long history of Democratic politics and a strong labor movement going back to around 1900, when the “Copper King” mine owners ruled Montana business and media, and bribed their way into political office. Today, Carden, who’s retired, is worried that the mega rich are again influencing politics here, and how expensive life is in his home state.
“Between health care and gas and food, and you go to the store the other day, there’s rib steaks $19.99 a pound, you know,” Carden says.
A political group marches in the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Butte, Montana, March 17 2026
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This year’s parade followed an unusually turbulent few days in Montana’s political scene – half of its congressional delegation abruptly retired. Despite the state’s recent tilt from purple to deep red, the races for their seats could be more in play now because of the way Senator Steve Daines and Congressman Ryan Zinke, both Republicans, gave up them up and chose their successors. In Daines’ case, he withdrew his candidacy just minutes before the filing deadline.
Like a lot of people in Butte, Carden is a longtime Democrat. But he says he’s grown disillusioned with party politics.
“I would rather everything be independent where there is no party designation and then you have to pay more attention to who the person actually is,” Carden says.
New Candidate opts to go independent
That’s exactly what Seth Bodnar, a former Green Beret running for U.S. Senate, is trying to capitalize on. He joined other candidates mixed in with Irish dancing troupes and fire department floats, as he walked the parade route along Park Street shaking the occasional hand and tossing candy.
In an interview with NPR earlier in Missoula, Bodnar, who recently resigned his post as University of Montana president, pitched what he says would be his bi-partisan appeal.
“I’m an independent,” Bondar says. “When I raised my right hand at the age of 18 and I swore an oath to this Constitution when I joined the military, not to a political party.”.
Person over party used to be the playbook in Montana, which some call just one long Main Street. It’s how former Senator Jon Tester used to win despite being a Democrat as the state got redder.
The day after Bodnar formally announced he was gathering signatures to get on the ballot, his long shot bid got taken a lot more seriously.
Sen. Steve Daines, who was elected to the Senate in 2014, sent shockwaves through the state’s political scene when he announced in a video posted to X that he’d decided not to seek reelection.
Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., speaks at the Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing for Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be Secretary of the Treasury, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025.
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“I’m also very thankful to have served alongside President Trump and my colleagues in the Senate,” Daines said in the video. “Together we built a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, we delivered the largest tax cut in U.S. history, we unleashed American energy dominance and secured our southern border.”
Daines’ late hour withdrawal presumably clears the way for his chosen successor, Kurt Alme, the U.S. Attorney for Montana until he declared his candidacy for Daines’ seat. Daines later said withdrawing earlier could have enticed a prominent Democrat like Tester to enter the race.
Independent Seth Bodnar says it reminds him of the Montana of old.
“We have direct election of senators in the United States in part because of political corruption in this state 125 years ago, Copper Kings trying to buy U.S. Senate seats,” Bodnar says. “That didn’t work back then and it’s not going to work right now.”
But Democrats say Bodnar’s entry as an independent will just split the liberal vote.
The GOP base is angry too
“Montanans are getting very indignant about what they see as out and out dishonesty,” says Roger Koopman, a former Republican legislator and Montana Public Service commissioner from Bozeman.
Koopman says the party establishment’s backroom dealing is a gift to Democrats and especially Seth Bodnar, who he says is a liberal running as an independent.
“They’re going to say, ‘hey, I’m over these Republicans playing games with me, you can’t do that and expect me to vote for you, I’m not going to vote Democrat, but here’s this guy out here who says he’s independent, let me give him a try,’” Koopman says.
Alme has been keeping a low profile. Political pundits say that might be by design. A campaign spokesperson sent NPR this statement: “Anyone could run for this seat. Kurt is running on his record as the Trump-endorsed candidate of common sense who knows how to be tough on violent crime, dismantle drug cartels, and deliver historic tax relief. Voters will decide, and Kurt is confident in his work serving Montana and helping President Trump put America First.”
At Montana State University, political science department chair Eric Austin says he expects party tensions will cool and Republicans will rally around their nominee by November.
“I think in part that speaks to the changes in the electorate in the state,” Austin says. “As the state has become more red, people have more strongly affiliated themselves with the Republican Party and less as independents.”
However, Austin says the midterms will be a referendum on President Trump and there’s growing economic anxiety in Montana. Farmers are getting hurt by Trump’s tariffs. His Iran War has sent fertilizer prices soaring, raised interest rates and the cost of gas.
Back in Butte, at the St. Paddy’s Day parade, longtime Democratic activist Evan Barrett says there’s a resurgence in populist resentment in Montana.
Longtime Montana Democratic party activist Evan Barrett at the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Butte, Montana, March 17 2026
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“It’s almost like a repetition of the past,” says Barrett, a one time economic aide to former Governor Brian Schweitzer.
Ducking into an old storefront to take a break from the spectacle of the parade, Barrett told NPR there’s a feeling in the electorate that a lot of outside money is coming into influence politics, but not staying in Montana and being invested into things like schools.
“So this is a really wild and different year,” Barrett says. “Anybody that tells you they know what’s gonna happen, well, be a bit skeptical.”
President Trump has endorsed last minute Senate candidate Kurt Alme but it’s not clear what kind of effect that might have on voters in November.
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Savannah Guthrie Says She Believes Her Mother Was Taken for Ransom
Savannah Guthrie spoke on the “Today” show in her first interview since her mother, Nancy Guthrie, was abducted from her home near Tuscon, Ariz.
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“The ransom note, notes for ransom requests came. Did you believe those to be real?” “The two notes that we received that we responded to — I tend to believe those are real.” “Really?” “We still don’t know. Honestly, we don’t know anything. We don’t know anything. So I don’t know that it’s because she’s my mom. But yeah, that’s probably — which is too much to bear to think that I brought this to her bedside, that it’s because of me. And I just say, I’m so sorry, Mommy. I’m so sorry. We need answers. We cannot be at peace without knowing. And someone can do the right thing. And it is never too late to do the right thing.”
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Kim says GOP offer is “not where we want it to be”
Democratic Sen. Andy Kim of New Jersey said Democrats are continuing to evaluate the Republicans’ offer but said it does not go far enough.
“We’re talking through it right now but it’s not where we want it to be,” Kim said off the Senate floor. “We just continue to be stuck here.”
Kim said “we’re hunkered down” and “hopefully we can just continue to hash it out.” He did not give details about the latest offer, noting that conversations are “evolving in real time.”
“But for me, it’s not good enough for me,” he added.
Senate now voting on advancing DHS funding
The Senate is taking a procedural vote on funding for DHS. The vote marks the seventh attempt to advance the measure, which needs 60 votes.
Asked whether the vote would be considered a response to the latest GOP offer, Thune said, “Hopefully there will be, yeah, there will be some finality in this real soon.”
“We’re going to know real soon,” he added.
Photo ID amendment fails in party-line vote
The amendment that would have required voters to show photo identification to cast a ballot failed to advance. The vote was 53-47, falling short of the 60 votes needed to succeed.
The vote came during the second week of a marathon debate over a controversial elections bill known as the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and certain forms of photo ID to cast a ballot. The legislation does not have enough support to clear the 60-vote threshold in the upper chamber, but President Trump has dialed up the pressure on Senate Republicans to find a way to force it through.
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Britt says Republicans have had “very fruitful conversations” with Democrats
GOP Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama, who has been involved in talks to end the stalemate, told reporters that Republicans have had productive conversations with Democrats.
“We had very fruitful conversations last night with some of our Democrat colleagues and this morning. So, you know, I hope that we can find that pathway. I think that’s what’s best,” she said. “These missions don’t need to go unfunded, particularly at such a critical time in our nation’s history, and also the men and women that are working need to get paid.”
Senate begins vote on advancing amendment on photo ID for voting
The Senate has begun a vote on invoking cloture on an amendment that would require a photo ID to cast a ballot in federal elections. It needs 60 votes to succeed.
The vote on advancing DHS funding is expected next.
King says Democrats are reviewing GOP offer
Sen. Angus King, an independent who caucuses with Democrats and has been involved in the talks over DHS funding, said Democrats are going over the latest Republican proposal.
“We’re reviewing that offer now,” King told reporters.
Thune: “Hopefully we can find a pathway to drive this to the finish”
Leaving the floor, Thune didn’t share details about the latest GOP offer, noting that the text is now in front of Democrats. But he stressed that “it’s important that we try and close this down and get it done today.”
“Let’s let the Dems react to what’s out there, and hopefully we can find a pathway to drive this to the finish,” Thune said.
He said the White House has been involved in “the back-and-forth that has occurred overnight and all morning.” He also suggested that the offer is close to what Republicans offered early this week, which Democrats rejected because it didn’t include reforms to ICE.
Asked about the possibility of delaying the Senate’s recess, Thune said If DHS funding isn’t resolved, “I suspect we’ll probably be around here.”
Thune says Republicans sent Democrats “last and final” offer
Entering the Senate chamber, Thune told reporters that Republicans have made a final offer to Democrats.
“The Dems are now in possession of what I think is our last and final,” Thune said. “So let’s hope this gets it done.”
Senate moves up votes to 1 p.m.
The votes that were originally scheduled for 1:30 p.m. — on the voter ID amendment and advancing DHS funding — will now take place at 1 p.m., according to Majority Whip John Barrasso’s office.
House to vote for third time on DHS funding
The House will vote this afternoon on legislation to fund DHS as movement on the issue remains stalled in the Senate.
The lower chamber has twice passed legislation to fund the entire department through September, but it’s been effectively dead on arrival in the Senate as it’s been unable to overcome the 60-vote threshold to advance.
A vote is also planned on a resolution “expressing the support of the House” for the department. The resolution would do little beyond offer gratitude for DHS employees.
Votes are expected to begin around 2 p.m.
House Democrats, meanwhile, are trying to force a vote on legislation to fund all of DHS except ICE and CBP. But their discharge petition, introduced last week, is short of the 218 signatures needed to move forward. So far, 205 of 214 Democrats have backed it. It would also need the support of four Republicans.
GOP senator says talks to end impasse have increased
Sen. John Hoeven, a North Dakota Republican involved in the DHS negotiations, told reporters at the Capitol that talks continue and have increased.
“We put options in front of the Democrats, and they just need to quit backing up on us and vote to get DHS funded and TSA agents paid,” Hoeven said.
He cited developments since the initial Democratic opposition to funding DHS, including the new leadership at the department and the deescalation in Minneapolis, along with some of the reforms within the initial DHS bill that remain on the table.
“I’m hoping that as we get to the end of this week — you know how it works around here with deadlines — that that’s going to get us to a point where we get it done,” he said. “But we’re still working.”
Hoeven said it’s a good thing that the Senate has begun voting, with a failed vote Wednesday on advancing the DHS bill and another vote set for later this afternoon. He said “I think that helps get some movement.”
“We’re just trying to find what it’s going to take to bring folks together and get it done,” Hoeven said.
Thune: “We’re trying to narrow it in and home in on a deal”
Thune, appearing on Fox News on Thursday morning, accused Democrats of moving the goalposts and “talking in circles” on DHS funding.
“Every single day they move the goalpost,” Thune said. “They said we don’t want to fund ICE. And now they’re saying we don’t want to fund ICE and we want reforms.”
The majority leader said “we’re trying to narrow it in and home in on a deal” that can be struck in the “very near future.” But he argued that for Democrats, it’s “all about politics.”
“I think they’re just playing politics with this, have been from the beginning,” Thune said. “They think it’s really good with their base.”
Thune said “this has got to stop,” adding that “I think they’re going to come to their senses — I hope they do.”
Asked whether the Senate will go on its scheduled recess, Thune reiterated that “it’s very hard to take off if we don’t have DHS funded.”
“Obviously we’re looking at optionality in terms of what it would take if we have to be here,” Thune said. “But one way or the other, we have to get this done.”
Trump warns of “very drastic measures” without end to shutdown
At the beginning of a Cabinet meeting at the White House, President Trump blasted Democrats for the ongoing impasse, saying they are “really punishing the American people.”
“They need to end the shutdown immediately, or we’ll have to take some very drastic measures,” the president said, without elaborating.
Senate to take up voter ID amendment, DHS funding beginning at 1:30 p.m.
The Senate is scheduled to convene at noon and will take two votes at 1:30 p.m, according to a notice from Majority Whip John Barrasso’s office.
The first vote will be on advancing an amendment to the SAVE America Act, which would require photo ID to cast a vote. The second vote will be on advancing the DHS funding measure. Additional votes are possible later in the day.
Sen. Ron Johnson renews call to end the filibuster
GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin wrote an op-ed Thursday advocating for changing the Senate rules to end the 60-vote threshold required to advance most legislation in the chamber, a position he has been reiterating in recent days.
“I’m not sure how things could get much worse by ending the filibuster,” Johnson wrote in the Daily Wire. “The status quo certainly isn’t working. I think it’s obvious things must change — we need a paradigm shift.”
Johnson described dysfunction in the Senate, pointing particularly to the funding process and the five shutdowns that have occurred since he came to Congress in 2011. He compared the Senate to “plaque clogging an artery leading to a heart attack.”
He acknowledged those in his party who wish to preserve the filibuster and argue that it fosters bipartisanship. But the Wisconsin Republican said that, if the filibuster ends, “we all might be surprised to find senators attempting to find common ground on more issues to help ensure bills pass with bipartisan support.”
Johnson opposed ending the filibuster until last fall’s 43-day shutdown, the longest in U.S. history. In 2022, Johnson said Democrats who wanted to abolish the practice were attempting a “naked power grab.”
Trump floats ending the filibuster to open DHS
President Trump floated ending the Senate’s 60-vote threshold to reopen DHS, asking, “When is ‘enough, enough’ for our Republican Senators.”
“There comes a time when you must do what should have been done a long time ago, and something which the Lunatic Democrats will do on day one, if they ever get the chance,” Mr. Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER, and get our airports, and everything else, moving again.”
The president urged the Senate to also add the SAVE America Act, an election bill he has repeatedly pushed Congress to pass. Earlier this week, he threw a wrench into DHS talks when he told Republicans not to make a deal with Democrats and to instead link the elections bill to DHS funding.
Thune has repeatedly said there isn’t support for ending the filibuster within the GOP conference.
The president claimed in another post that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer “will make a deal now because he thinks that if he doesn’t, Republicans will TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER, something which they should do whether he makes a deal or not!!!”
Senate schedule up in the air as recess looms
The Senate is scheduled to be on recess for two weeks starting next week. But Thune has kept the door open to keeping the chamber in town if the impasse persists.
The majority leader told reporters as the Senate convened Wednesday that no decisions had been made yet on whether senators would stay in town if they’re unable to reach a deal.
“I think it’s awfully hard not to have the government funded if we’re not here,” Thune said.
Later Wednesday, Thune suggested that the deadline could put pressure on senators, who often leave town on Thursday nights, to reach a deal.
“You know how it is around here. It’s not Thursday yet,” Thune said. “And sometimes you’ve got to let things run. We’ll see where the deal might land.”
Senate to vote again on advancing DHS funding
The Senate is set to vote Thursday afternoon on advancing a DHS funding measure. The motion fell short of the 60-vote threshold needed to succeed on Wednesday for the sixth time.
It was the first time the chamber took the vote with the promise of the GOP offer, which would amend the measure funding all of DHS by stripping out the funds for ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division. Just one Democrat, Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, voted in favor of moving forward. But Republicans are hoping to peel off more support on Thursday.
Democrats pushing for reforms after GOP offers to forgo ICE deportation funding
Republicans quickly rejected Democrats’ counterproposal to fund the government and secure ICE reforms like boosting training standards and requiring immigration officers to wear identification on Wednesday. They criticized the offer as unserious, arguing that if Democrats refuse to fund ICE, they don’t have grounds to seek reforms to the agency.
Democrats see things differently.
Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine, who struck a deal with Republicans to end the last shutdown, outlined that ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations division and Customs and Border Protection would be funded under the GOP offer. He claimed that “right now, most of HSI is in ICE doing ERO work.”
“It’s an illusory solution, if they can man ICE with people from … CBP and HSI,” King said. “I don’t have any problem with HSI and CBP doing their jobs. But not if they’re doing ICE’s job.”
Despite the GOP pushback on Democrats’ effort to secure reforms, Thune suggested later in the day that there is some room for negotiation, saying if Democrats “get a more realistic set of proposals, or a more realistic offer on the table, then we’ll be back in business.”
The majority leader also didn’t rule out the possibility of a short-term measure to fund the government while conversations continue on a long-term solution.
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