President Donald Trump, just hours before funding for the Department of Homeland Security is set to lapse, said he will soon be personally involved in ongoing funding negotiations on Capitol Hill.
The Senate failed to advance a stand-alone DHS funding package on Thursday afternoon, all but ensuring a partial government shutdown will start Saturday.
DHS has been operating under a stopgap measure after funding was previously stripped from a full government appropriations package. That was part of Democratic lawmakers’ demands to reform immigration operations in the wake of the Renee Good and Alex Pretti killings in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Trump spoke to reporters before departing the White House on Friday afternoon for an event with special forces operators at Fort Bragg in North Carolina.
“Well, I will,” he responded when asked if he’d been personally involved in the negotiations between the White House and leaders on Capitol Hill.
“If you look at Homeland Security, if you look at what they’ve done, if you look at what ICE has done and Border Patrol, we have the safest border in the history of our country. Nobody comes in, other than if they come in legally,” Trump continued, claiming his immigration policies resulted in historic drops in violent crime rates in 2025. “I am here to protect law enforcement: our great police, and ICE, and Border Patrol, and everybody. I’m here to protect them because they’re protecting us.”
Still, the president voiced some doubt that a deal with Democrats to refund DHS can soon be reached.
“We’ll see what happens,” he stated. “We always have to protect our law enforcement.”
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