- 共和党人和白宫继续多次提出重新开放政府的提议，而参议院多数党领袖、南达科他州共和党人约翰·图恩指责参议院民主党人没有“任何借口”继续阻挠国土安全部资金的拨款。
“实际上将此事推向最终解决的机会是存在的，”图恩周六在新闻发布会上回应福克斯新闻数字版记者时表示。“显然，要达成协议，双方必须坐到谈判桌前。白宫在那里，参议院共和党人也在那里。问题是，参议院民主党人会接受‘是’作为答复吗？”
国土安全部（DHS）已进入停摆第36天，参议院民主党人继续阻挠对该机构的资金拨款，以追求对移民和海关执法局（ICE）的改革。
[国土安全部停摆时长追平历史第二长，因民主党再次阻挠拨款导致机场混乱与反恐担忧加剧]
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参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（R-S.D.）认为，民主党继续推动关闭国土安全部是出于“政治优势”。（汤姆·威廉姆斯/国会-投票站，通过盖蒂图片社）
经过两周多的谈判似乎陷入停滞后，民主党人对白宫的最新提议做出了回应。这促使他们与参议院共和党人和特朗普政府官员（包括边境问题负责人汤姆·霍曼）在国会山进行了两次面对面会议。
上周五结束的最新一次会议中，共和党人向参议院民主党人提出了一项国土安全部资金法案的妥协方案。
图恩表示，会议进展顺利，并希望双方能在周末再次会面。他称共和党人的提议“包含了许多民主党人要求和呼吁的改革内容”。
[民主党参议员在四次阻挠拨款后呼吁为国土安全部拨款]
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俄克拉荷马州共和党参议员詹姆斯·兰克福德指责参议院民主党人“对移民和海关执法局的恐惧超过了对伊朗的恐惧”。（艾莉森·罗伯茨/彭博社通过盖蒂图片社）
目前，机场排队等候的人群绵延数英里，数万名联邦工作人员无薪工作，同时随着五角大楼继续对伊朗政权展开“史诗般的愤怒”行动，美国面临的威胁有所增加。
尽管如此，图恩和共和党人对参议院少数党领袖、纽约州民主党人查克·舒默以及民主党人在过去几周内不愿参与谈判的态度日益感到不满。
“我们现在面临国土安全部关闭的局面，显然我的民主党同事们对移民和海关执法局的恐惧，超过了对伊朗以及我们现在面临的国际冲突挑战的恐惧，我们知道本土存在威胁，”俄克拉荷马州共和党参议员詹姆斯·兰克福德在周六的新闻发布会上表示。
[民主党人在白宫透露国土安全部让步后仍不为所动]
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2026年3月9日，德克萨斯州休斯顿威廉·P·霍比机场的运输安全管理局（TSA）安检口，旅客排队等候。美国机场报告安检队伍等待时间比平时更长，因为TSA特工本周可能无法拿到第一笔全额工资。（马克·费利克斯/彭博社通过盖蒂图片社）
周五，共和党人第五次尝试全面重新开放该机构但失败。在此背景下，参议院民主党人已多次试图推进单独的资金法案，以开放国土安全部的部分部门，但排除移民执法相关内容。
参议院周六晚些时候将就舒默推动的运输安全管理局单独资金法案进行全票投票。鉴于共和党人坚持认为整个部门应完全重新开放，该法案很可能会失败。
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“我知道他们认为，正如他们一位领导人所描述的那样，他们的立场‘非常平静，非常平静’，”图恩表示。“但我要告诉你们，现在正在机场排队的人们并不觉得‘非常平静’。这需要解决。我们需要一个结果。”
周六晚些时候，唐纳德·特朗普总统在Truth Social帖子中威胁，如果民主党人不接受协议，将部署移民和海关执法局特工到美国机场。他称移民和海关执法局将负责机场安全，并立即逮捕非法进入美国的移民，特别关注索马里人。
亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字版报道美国参议院的记者。
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., accused Senate Democrats of not having “any excuses” to continue blocking Homeland Security funding as Republicans and the White House continue to make repeated offers to reopen the government.
“The opportunity to actually drive this to a conclusion is there,” Thune said at a press conference on Saturday in response to Fox News Digital. “You have to have, obviously, to negotiate a deal, you got to have two sides at the table. The White House is there, Senate Republicans are there. The question is, are Senate Democrats going to take yes for an answer?”
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) entered its 36th day of shutdown as Senate Democrats continue to block funding for the agency in their pursuit of reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
[DHS SHUTDOWN TIED FOR SECOND-LONGEST EVER AS DEMS AGAIN BLOCK FUNDING AMID AIRPORT CHAOS, TERRORISM CONCERNS]
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., argued that Democrats were continuing their push to keep DHS closed because it was “politically advantageous.”(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
After more than two weeks of negotiations appearing to have stalled, Democrats responded to the White House’s latest offer. That spurred two face-to-face meetings with Senate Republicans and Trump administration officials, including border czar Tom Homan, on Capitol Hill.
The latest meeting, which wrapped on Friday, saw Republicans offer Senate Democrats a compromise DHS funding bill.
Thune said the meeting went well and hoped the parties will meet again over the weekend. He characterized the GOP’s offer as filled “with a lot of reforms that have been requested and asked for by Democrats.”
[DEM SENATORS CALL TO FUND DHS AFTER VOTING TO BLOCK IT 4 TIMES AMID SHUTDOWN FIGHT]
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Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., accused Senate Democrats of being more afraid of “ICE than they are of Iran.”(Allison Robbert/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
It comes as lines at airports snake for blocks, tens of thousands of federal workers go without pay, and concerns about increased threats in the U.S. as the Pentagon continues Operation Epic Fury against the Iranian regime.
Still, Thune and the GOP have grown increasingly frustrated with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Democrats’ unwillingness to engage in negotiations over the last several weeks.
“We have the Department of Homeland Security closed right now because apparently my Democratic colleagues are more afraid of ICE than they are of Iran and the challenges that we face now in the conflict internationally that we know that we have threats back in the homeland,” Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., said at Saturday’s press conference.
[DEMS UNMOVED AS WHITE HOUSE REVEALS DHS CONCESSIONS IN SHUTDOWN BATTLE]
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Travelers wait in line at a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoint at William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas, on Monday, March 9, 2026. Airports in the U.S. are reporting longer-than-normal wait times in security lines, as TSA agents are poised to miss their first full paycheck this week.(Mark Felix/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Republicans tried and failed for a fifth time to fully reopen the agency on Friday. In the background, there have been several attempts by Senate Democrats to move forward with standalone funding bills to open parts of DHS, excluding immigration enforcement.
The Senate will have a full vote on a standalone funding bill for the Transportation Security Administration, pushed by Schumer, later on Saturday. It will likely fail, given Republicans’ position that the department should be completely reopened.
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“I know they think it’s, as has been described by one of their leaders, ‘very serene, very serene’ with their position,” Thune said. “Well, I’m telling you something, the people who are sitting in those lines at the airports right now don’t see it as very serene. This needs to be resolved. We need a result.”
In a Truth Social post later Saturday, President Donald Trump threatened to deploy ICE agents to U.S. airports if Democrats did not accept a deal. He said ICE would handle airport security and immediately arrest illegal immigrants coming into the U.S., with a special focus on Somalians.
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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