2026年3月19日 / 美国东部时间下午3:55 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
华盛顿—— 周四，一组参议员与边境负责人汤姆·霍曼举行了会面，谈判代表们继续寻求一项协议，以改革移民和海关执法局，并结束国土安全部的停摆。
资金短缺已持续一个多月，此次会议标志着一个关键进展，因为迄今为止的进展似乎停滞不前。民主党人和白宫近几周一直在交换提案，但双方仍相距甚远。
“第一步是对话，这是我们六周来第一次进行这样的对话，”阿拉巴马州共和党参议员凯蒂·布里特表示。“我希望在未来几天能看到更多这样的对话。”
她补充说，周四的会议不是谈判，而是一次交谈，并且“没有任何保证”。
“我认为这很有帮助，”她说。
尽管民主党人与白宫一直在交换提议，参议院共和党人近几周也公开推动议员级别的会谈。民主党人认为他们需要确保政府确实认真对待谈判，同时对与参议院共和党人的会谈能否取得突破表示怀疑。
与此同时，要求为国土安全部监督的众多机构（包括运输安全管理局）提供资金的压力越来越大。近几周，由于工作人员未领到工资，数百名运输安全管理局人员辞职，而人员配备问题已在机场造成混乱。民主党人试图通过为个别机构提供资金，但共和党人阻止了这些尝试。共和党人转而试图临时批准国土安全部的全部资金，但民主党人也同样予以否决。
此次会谈正值国土安全部领导层因联邦执法部门在1月份两名美国公民在明尼苏达州被杀事件后的行为受到严厉审查而发生变动之际。预计俄克拉荷马州共和党参议员马克韦恩·穆林将在未来几天被确认担任新的国土安全部部长，接替克里斯蒂·诺姆。霍曼被任命领导明尼苏达州的行动，因为诺姆的领导面临两党成员的批评。
参议院主要拨款议员、缅因州共和党参议员苏珊·柯林斯和华盛顿州民主党参议员帕蒂·默里参加了与霍曼的会面。其他拨款议员，包括北达科他州共和党参议员约翰·霍文、新罕布什尔州民主党参议员 Jeanne Shaheen 也出席了会议，缅因州独立人士安格斯·金和新罕布什尔州民主党参议员玛吉·哈桑也在场。金、哈桑和沙欣曾参与去年秋季结束历史上最长政府停摆的谈判。
离开会议时，一些参议员拒绝对私下交谈置评。霍文告诉记者“我们取得了一些进展”，但默里表示双方仍然“相距甚远”。
参议院定于下周末结束时休会两周。南达科他州共和党人、参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩当天早些时候告诉记者，僵局“需要在下周末之前得到解决”。
“如果政府仍然关闭，我认为我们无法休会，”他补充道。
图恩在会议前表示，这标志着一个积极的发展，称“我们一段时间以来一直鼓励这样做，很高兴看到双方坐下来谈”。
霍曼在离开会议时表示：“我们需要让政府重新运作起来。”
Nikole Killion、Alan He 和 Caitlin Huey-Burns 对本报道有贡献。
Senators meet with border czar Tom Homan as lawmakers search for way out of DHS shutdown
March 19, 2026 / 3:55 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — A group of senators met with border czar Tom Homan on Thursday as negotiators continue to seek an agreement to reform Immigration and Customs Enforcement and end the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.
More than a month into the funding lapse, the meeting marked a key development as progress to date has appeared stagnant. Democrats and the White House have been trading proposals in recent weeks, but the two sides have remained far apart.
“First step is dialogue, and this is the very first time that we have had that” in six weeks, Republican Sen. Katie Britt of Alabama said. “I hope that we will see more of that in the days to come.”
She added that Thursday’s meeting was not a negotiation, but a conversation, and there is “no guarantee of anything.”
“I think it was helpful,” she said.
While Democrats have been trading offers with the White House, Senate Republicans have pushed publicly for member-level talks in recent weeks. Democrats have argued that they needed assurances that the administration is serious about the negotiations, while voicing skepticism that talks with Senate Republicans would yield a breakthrough.
Tom Homan, White House border czar, departs following a meeting with lawmakers at the U.S. Capitol on March 19, 2026. Daniel Heuer / Bloomberg via Getty Images
Meanwhile, pressure has mounted to fund the many agencies DHS oversees, including TSA. Hundreds of TSA officers have quit in recent weeks as workers have gone without pay, while staffing issues have created chaos at airports. Democrats have tried to pass funding for individual agencies, but Republicans have blocked those attempts. Republicans have in turn tried to approve funds for all of DHS on a temporary basis, which Democrats have likewise blocked.
The talks come as DHS leadership is undergoing a change after the actions of federal law enforcement have been intensely scrutinized in the wake of the killings of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota in January. GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma is expected to be confirmed in the coming days as the new DHS secretary, replacing Kristi Noem. Homan was brought in to lead operations in Minnesota as Noem’s leadership faced criticism from members of both parties.
GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, the top appropriators in the Senate, were in the meeting with Homan. Other appropriators, including GOP Sen. John Hoeven of North Dakota and Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, were also in attendance, as were Sens. Angus King, a Maine independent, and Maggie Hassan, a New Hampshire Democrat. King, Hassan and Shaheen were involved in negotiations to end the longest government shutdown in history last fall.
Leaving the meeting, a number of senators declined to comment on the private conversation. Hoeven told reporters “we made some progress,” but Murray said the two sides remain a “long ways apart.”
The Senate is set to leave town for a two-week recess at the end of next week. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, told reporters earlier in the day that the impasse “needs to get resolved by the end of next week.”
“I can’t see us taking a break if the government’s still shut down,” he added.
Thune said ahead of the meeting that it marked a positive development, saying “we’ve been encouraging this for a while, and glad to see both sides sitting down.”
Homan said leaving the meeting that “we need to get the government back open.”
Nikole Killion, Alan He and Caitlin Huey-Burns contributed to this report.
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