Whatever it takes.

DEFUND ICE.

ICE and CBP need to be trimmed back to the their size from 2021 or earlier.
No masks is the minimum shift required to even have further conversations.

I do NOT want my tax dollars supporting a masked unidentified secret police that looks, acts and sounds like the Gestapo reborn, period.

(or $150B depending on how you count it). That will need to be clawed back before we see any real change in ICE behavior. But this is a start.

But at least it’s an effort to fight back against the current administration ‘s illegal
Activities

Thune (SD) voted with the Democrats, while McConnell (KY) didn't vote - due to hospitalization if memory serves and the Senate doesn't allow remote voting.

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1192/vote_119_2_00038.htm

while ICE marches on. What the heck?
(As noted at the end of the article posted by the OP)

usually they will exempt certain categories of employees related to "health, safety, security" and will limit the numbers furloughed (although those who do have to work don't get paid).

In other cases, if the "FTEs" (Full Time Equivalents) are being funded from sources other than "BA" (Budget Authority) money like "User (or other) Fees", "Excise Taxes", etc., and then those staff can continue to work (and get paid) until that funding runs out.

In general, any contractors are SOL (unless their prime chooses to eat the cost to pay them when the shutdown is done because they normally won't get any back pay and there are MANY MANY contractors that make up the federal workforce, and that would include DHS, the biggest department outside of DOD).


(image from here - https://www.brookings.edu/articles/is-government-too-big-reflections-on-the-size-and-composition-of-todays-federal-government/)

I was a govt contractor, but science editor was not considered essential. No back pay.
I hope Coast Guard and FEMA can keep going thru the mechanisms you have cited here. Thank you for the detailed info.

I have been through a couple including the Carnival Cruz "Green Eggs and Ham" shutdown back in 2013. Thankfully I retired before the worst ones that happened in 2018 - 2019 (35-day) and that last one in fall 2025 that was 43 days.

For the Gingrich shutdown back in 1995 - 1996, my agency was one of the few that had been funded so me and my coworkers were coming into our office building (which was multi-agency) with only a handful of other agencies in there that had employees working, but otherwise, the building was completely empty.

Take THAT MF'ers! I hope Noem has a nervous breakdown. Yay for everyone who voted for this, including rethugs.

that have no training or respect for human beings? Fuck ICE. I wish it would stay unfunded.

This may be our last chance to stop what they are planning to do to all of us.

Thanks for posting

Congress leaves town (Monday is a holiday and they usually take off the rest of a holiday week) - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143615494

Will they hitch hike home?

All that heavy battle crap will be roadside litter!