Operation Metro Surge ends, DHS shuts down.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
At 12:01 on Saturday, February 14, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) partially shut down after lawmakers in Congress failed to come to terms on a deal to fund the department through September. Senate Democrats are demanding funding be tied to reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), a stance they have maintained since Alex Pretti and Renee Good were killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:17.4 | Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, and welcome to the Tangle podcast, a place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take. |
| 0:28.4 | I'm associate editor Audrey Moorhead, and I'll be your host today as we talk about the latest on the Department of Homeland Security shutdown and the end of DHS operations in Minnesota. |
| 0:37.5 | Before we dive in, at the heart of the issue we're covering today are, of course, the enforcement |
| 0:41.6 | actions taken by DHS agents in Minnesota. |
| 0:44.7 | To get a full perspective on this issue, we highly suggest listening to our Friday episode |
| 0:48.8 | answering reader questions about ICE and CBP. |
| 0:51.5 | Who are these agents? |
| 0:53.0 | What kind of authority do they have? |
| 0:55.2 | And what's the scope of DHS's immigration enforcement? |
| 0:58.2 | You can find a link to that episode in today's show notes. |
| 1:01.2 | Just as a reminder, that episode is for premium subscribers only. |
| 1:04.6 | So if you're a free listener and you want to hear the whole thing, |
| 1:07.2 | you'll need to upgrade your membership. |
| 1:14.9 | Thank you. whole thing, you'll need to upgrade your membership. Now for our quick hits. |
| 1:17.1 | Number one, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff and President Donald Trump's son-in-law, |
| 1:22.7 | Jared Kushner, met with Iranian officials in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday for a second round of talks over |
| 1:28.9 | sanction relief and a potential nuclear agreement. |
| 1:31.8 | Separately on Tuesday, Iranian state media reported that parts of the Strait of Hormuz, |
| 1:36.7 | which connects the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean, will be closed for a few hours due to security precautions. |
| 1:43.0 | Number two. On Thursday, the Trump administration repealed the 2009 EPA endangerment finding, |
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