Republicans Take Ownership of the DHS Shutdown

Punchbowl News: “Let’s be abundantly clear — this record-breaking, 44-day DHS funding impasse has turned into a political disaster for Republicans.”

“At one point, Republicans seemed to be breaking through with their message that Democrats instigated the DHS fight over undocumented immigrants. But now, House and Senate Republicans are publicly warring with each other over who’s at fault for last week’s debacle. The GOP-run Congress has left town until mid-April, while President Donald Trump was forced to issue an executive order to pay TSA employees.”

Washington Post: “Republicans in the House are now actively bucking every member of their party in the Senate who agreed to go along with the Senate bill, which passed unanimously, giving Democrats a significantly larger cudgel to use in blaming them for the shutdown.”