Hey, everybody. Tim O'Hour from the Bullwark here with our friend Andrew Eggers, who writes

a MorningShod's newsletter.

She can sign up for at the Bullwark.com.

And this morning's newsletter was really tickling my pickle.

And let me explain why.

The headline is, don't look now, but Dems are winning the DHS funding fight.

And a big reason why I was interested in his take on this is because there's mostly complaints about the Democratic leadership.

That's mostly all you hear from conservatives don't like them, liberals don't like them, socialists don't like them, nobody thinks of that.

And I've got my complaints, you know, but you hear mostly complaints about the Democratic leadership, how feckless they are. And yet, the first shutdown effort, I was the rare voice in the wilderness saying, it seemed like a strategic victory. You know, we didn't save the country from fascism or give everybody the perfect health care, but just as

kind of a minor strategic win, it was a minor strategic win. And now we have another one coming

up here. And some people are upset. They end up kicking the can two weeks on DHS funding

while funding the rest of the government. But inside that deal was a lot of Ws. And since people don't hear that,

I would like for them to hear your pitch on this, Andrew. Why are there a lot of Ws in this deal?

So there's a couple things here. One, before we talk about the DHS stuff, there is actually some

stuff in this package that Democrats are happy about. They've sort of reinstated some spending on HIV

programs, on K-12 school spending, things like this, that they were unhappy with like Doge-related

slashing to last year. There's some clawbacks of that sort of stuff. But the main event here is

what's going on with ICE funding and DHS in general.

There have been some progressives who have basically characterized any ongoing money to the Department of Homeland Security or to ICE at all going forward, given how badly they're all behaving as sort of capitulation

on the part of the Democrats. That has not been my read of it, certainly. I think that what we have

seen last week was we saw Democrats make a pretty big stink about reauthorizing DHS money

so much so that they kind of ground, you know, normal appropriations

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