Nearly 500 airport security staff quit as DHS shutdown drags on with no end in sight – US politics live

Negotiations to end funding standoff sparked by Trump administration’s immigration crackdown fail to find a breakthrough

Donald Trump has been “truthing” on his Truth Social platform early today, urging Republicans to terminate the Senate filibuster in his quest to have the Save America Act mandating voter ID enacted into law.

Two posts contain a barely veiled warning to Republicans against compromising with the Democrat Senate leader, Chuck Schumer, over funding the Department of Homeland Security, which has been partially shuttered in a dispute over immigration patrols – leading to disrupted security services and delays at airports.

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