White House says Trump will back emerging DHS deal

President Trump is on board with the Republican-backed effort to fund the Department of Homeland Security without money for Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) removal and enforcement efforts, the White House confirmed to The Hill’s sister station NewsNation on Tuesday.

The proposed plan would involve using the reconciliation process to get the ICE funding along with parts of the SAVE America Act, allowing it to pass without Democratic votes. 

A White House official told NewsNation that “conversations are still ongoing, but at this point this seems to be an acceptable solution.” 

A group of Senate Republicans said on Monday evening that they believed Trump was on board with the proposed agreement following a meeting with him at the White House.

Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), the chair of the Senate Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, told reporters as she returned to the Capitol from the White House meeting that Republicans feel they have a path to ending the Homeland Security shutdown, which will reach its 39th day on Tuesday.

“We do,” Britt said when asked whether the group that met with Trump has a solution to ending the stalemate.

Senators felt they landed in a “pretty good spot” with Trump after the lengthy meeting, according to the person familiar with the discussion.

The development marks a significant shift for the president, who previously said he would not make a deal with Democrats unless they moved the SAVE America Act. Hours before senators convinced Trump to support the deal, he called on lawmakers to skip Easter in order to stay in Washington to vote on a measure that would have lumped DHS funding and the Save Act together.

The Department of Homeland Security has not received funding in months, wreaking havoc on airports. Transportation Service Administration (TSA) workers have called out of work as a result of not being paid, resulting in long lines at airports across the country. 

The administration started deploying ICE agents deployed to a number of airports to assist with TSA screenings. 

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