House Speaker Mike Johnson is inching closer to hard red lines on future negotiations over the Department of Homeland Security.
- "They sent us a bill that literally put the number zero in the bill for the funding of border security and customs and immigration enforcement. We can't do that," Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday on Fox News.
- At the same time, President Trump is weighing whether to use a rare constitutional power to force Congress to return next week, he told the New York Post on Tuesday.
Why it matters: Senate Republicans have already yielded to Dems' shutdown hostage taking on ICE funding, and Trump — who's been all over the place — weakened the GOP's leverage by paying TSA.
