What John Thune offered Donald Trump

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🗓️ 23 March 2026

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With the DHS shutdown now in its 37th day, Senate Majority Leader John Thune approached President Donald Trump with a new proposal on Sunday that he believed Democrats would accept. But Trump said no, according to multiple sources. Anna and Jake break down the latest. Plus, it’s less than a month from the nation’s foreign intelligence surveillance authority expiring. Hear what comes next. Watch this episode on YouTube here! Punchbowl News is on YouTube⁠. ⁠Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to our channel today to see all the new ways⁠⁠ ⁠we’re investing in video.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at punchbowl.news.⁠⁠⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.3	Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer.
0:50.1	And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punch Bowl News.
0:53.4	It's Monday, March 23rd, 26. Happy to be back. Let's get in the mix here. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, Trump says no to DHS funding before the SAVE Act. Number two, what's next on FISA? And number three, news from the vault. Representative Waters wants a housing conference.
1:11.2	All right, Jake, we have a very newsy a.m. edition. The Senate was in over the weekend.
1:16.5	Of course, a big news here is that Senator Mark Wayne Mullen is scheduled to get confirmed today as Department of Homeland Security Secretary.
1:24.7	President Donald Trump headlining the NRCC's big March dinner in D.C. Wednesday night.
1:29.5	But the conflict continuing to rage between the U.S. and Iran and Trump threatening more action
1:35.6	there. But there is a lot of action here just in the Capitol. And we've got some news on Senate
1:40.8	majority leader, John Thune, bringing President Donald Trump a possible deal and him turning
1:46.5	him down. Yeah, that's right. John Thune approached Trump with a new proposal Sunday to break the
1:51.0	theoretically, to break the DHS impasse. This was at the urging of Senate Republicans and even some
1:56.2	White House aides. Thune told Trump that Republicans would support funding DHS except ICE. So that's
2:03.5	accept the agency that's at the center of this battle. So basically a new position, a reversal of his
2:09.0	long held position. And he said that ICE could be handled. Ice could be funded as part of the
2:14.3	reconciliation bill later. And Democrats, according to what Thune told Trump, would accept the offer.
2:20.6	But Trump said no.
2:21.8	Why did Trump say no?
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