Trump Intervenes to End Protracted GOP Deadlock on DHS Shutdown

President Donald Trump’s long reticence on how to clear a stalemate and fund the Department of Homeland Security showed signs of thaw after he issued a social media post on Wednesday calling for movement in a Republican-controlled Congress extraordinarily reliant on his direction.

And even when he told Republican lawmakers in a social media post Wednesday to pass a party-line spending measure to fund DHS’s immigration enforcement operations by June 1, he left unclear how he wants them to address the department’s funding lapse in the meantime.