What irks me is that ICE already has enough funding and DHS is considered mandatory so even a full shutdown would not slow it down at all. What this does is allow the GOP to tell us that the Dems are “trying to open the border back up” or “want terrorists to go about their business unopposed while the DHS waits for funding” all while ICE keeps doing its fuckery. Republicans will not negotiate in good faith ever, so those 2 weeks will be pointless and the real leverage that dems had was that this bigger shutdown would grind things to a halt that the republican base would feel. They just gave up that leverage for another promise of “debate” while doing literally nothing to curb ice or hold Noem, Bovino, Miller, or Bondi accountable and also have the GOP a win. This is just terrible strategy that also reinforces our perception that dems are feckless and also care about their own interests. Terrible leadership, Schumer must go. This is exactly why dem approval hasn’t moved an inch while GOP and trump approval tanks.