Welcome to the Mary Trump podcast. Let's dive it.

Punchball news reports that with the DHS shutdown now in its fifth week,

Senate Majority Leader John Thune proposed a deal to fund the department without ICE,

leaving that fight for a later Republican-only bill. Thune told Donald that Democrats would

accept the compromise, which would also get TSA agents paid again. Because remember, TSA agents, the people responsible for keeping us

safe and doing security at our airports have not been paid for five weeks. As a result, a lot of

agents aren't showing up for work, and that is increasing airport chaos. All of that would be eased by this compromise that

the Republicans fled into the Democrats, and again, that the Democrats were willing to accept.

But, of course, Donald rejected the plan, insisting Republicans stay in Washington and continue

the standoff.

Now, you might ask why, because it's a terrible look, considering that the Republicans

are in charge of everything, for security lines at airports to be miles long.

Well, because Donald wants to use his refusal to fund the DHS to a deal to pass the Save America Act, so-called. Donald also

warned that he would publicly criticize GOP senators if they left for recess, even suggesting

an Eastern gathering at the White House that some Republicans reportedly reviewed as a threat.

Well, they reportedly

reviewed it because it is a threat because that's what Donald does. He posted the following

to his failing social media site, quote, I don't think we should make any deal with the crazy

country destroying radical left Democrats unless and until they vote with the Republicans to

pass the Save America Act. It is far more important than anything else we're doing in the Senate,

and that includes giving these same terrible people the Dems who are to blame for this mess,

a $5 billion cut in ICE funding, a deal which even when disguised as something else is unacceptable

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