Welcome to the three martini lunch.

Grab a stole next to Greg Carumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of National Review.

Three martini's coming up.

So glad you're with us for the Tuesday edition of the Three Martini Lunch.

Happy St. Patrick's Day to you and especially to you, Mr. Garrity.

I hope you have a fabulous day and your pint of Guinness is exactly how you hope it will taste later today.

And I'm sure you will be spending time watching the greatest St. Patrick's Day movie of all time, which, of course, is the fugitive.

I will. I do wonder why if they can, you know, dye the river green on that day. They can't

die at a natural color every other day of the year. But nonetheless, I intend to honor my

heritage by drinking too much and trying to kiss strangers. Exactly. Yeah, we never will

solve that riddle about the Chicago River. It's kind of hanky. Anyway. It's hanky. I don't want you guys

doing words around me. I don't understand. Exactly. If you haven't seen the future,

if you have to, it's one of the great movies of all time. But anyway, let's get on to our first story.

And Jim, the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security continues now. We're into the second

month. I know people who are not getting a paycheck. We're into the second month.

I know people who are not getting a paycheck.

I'm sure you do too.

And the whole Democrat point here is we got to reform ICE.

So we're holding DHS funding hostage.

But of course, ICE is funded for a long time, thanks to the one big, beautiful bill.

So the Democrats really don't have a coherent argument here.

Political also reporting that the administration is conceding things like spending more money on body worn cameras and so forth.

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