This is Brian Lairor's Daily Politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Friday, February 13th.

I'm Kusha Navidar filling in for Brian today. Happy Friday. Today's the deadline for Congress to fund the Department

of Homeland Security. And by all accounts, there's no deal coming on the Democrats' demand for

reforms in the wake of the shooting deaths of two protesters in Minneapolis. But meanwhile,

Borders are Tom Homan announced the immigration enforcement surge has ended.

We've had great success with this operation, and we're leaving Minnesota safer.

Borders are Tom Homan press conference announcing end of Minnesota surge.

And we're going to talk about these developments, plus the importance of the House vote to

end the tariffs President Trump imposed on Canada last year and more with Susan Page, USA Today,

Washington Bureau Chief and the author of several books, including her latest, which is due out in April,

called The Queen and Her Presidents. Welcome back to the show, Susan. It's great to be back with you.

So starting with today's deadline for funding DHS, let's talk about how we got here. It was after the

shooting deaths of Renee Good and Alex Prattie in Minneapolis that Democrats demanded reforms to how

immigration enforcement officers conduct operations before they'd go

along with funding the government when that came up for a vote at the end of last month.

And the solution was to carve out DHS funding to give them time to negotiate with the White

House on reforms. So where do those negotiations stand if they still do?

Well, they'll have to negotiate because they'll eventually want to open the government up again.

But the negotiations are stalemated now.

And there is no prospect that the shutdown, the partial shutdown at midnight, can be avoided because Congress has left town for a week.

So we've got at least a week shutdown ahead of us for the Department of Homeland Security.

And on some of the fundamental issues like can ICE agents wear masks and should they be required to have judicial warrants before they go into someone's

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