他们的离去发生在参议院未能将国土安全部（DHS）全年拨款法案提交给总统唐纳德·特朗普签署之后。
参议院民主党人坚持要求对移民执法进行严格改革，并在周四多次阻止维持该机构运作的尝试。
参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默（D-N.Y.）和民主党议员阻止了为国土安全部提供全年资金的尝试，这增加了再次发生部分政府停摆的可能性。（Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images）
随着参众两院都将进入为期一周的休会，该机构预计将于周五午夜关闭。除非议员们返回前达成协议，否则国土安全部将至少停摆一周。
参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（R-S.D.）呼吁议员们回家，并指出如果谈判取得突破，他们将随时接到24小时通知返回。但目前，谈判似乎处于停滞不前或进展缓慢的状态。
“至少目前看来，民主党人就像去年秋天那样，根本不想要解决方案，”图恩表示，“他们不想要答案，只想要政治议题。”
参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（R-S.D.）未能瓦解参议院民主党人的统一阵线，无法为国土安全部全年拨款法案争取通过。（Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images）
参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默（D-N.Y.）及其党团阻止了原国土安全部拨款法案及随后的两周延长拨款法案的通过。
他们的抵制发生在白宫公布政府反建议的立法文本之后，周四上午几位参议院民主党人对此表示反对。
“政府实际上并不想改革移民和海关执法局（ICE），”舒默说，“他们自己从不推动改革。这就是我们必须——我们正在争取——立法来约束ICE并制止暴力的原因。”
参议院民主党人要求对移民和海关执法局（ICE）进行严格改革。他们并不相信边境问题负责人汤姆·霍曼所说的，随着谈判继续，明尼阿波利斯的行动将减少。
这让人回想起几个月前的情景，当时图恩多次试图拉拢民主党人脱离舒默，但在历史上最长的政府停摆期间未能打破他们的阻挠。
2026年2月1日，唐纳德·特朗普总统在佛罗里达州棕榈滩的海湖庄园对记者和媒体讲话。（Al Drago/Getty Images）
尽管本周早些时候有人乐观地认为谈判正朝着积极方向发展，但这些希望似乎已经破灭。
“目前看来，很明显民主党人将退出两党对话，”一位白宫高级官员表示，“他们将关闭部门，剥夺美国人获得FEMA、TSA等关键服务的机会，这将是本届国会第三次部分政府停摆。”
参议院民主党人于周三晚上收到了共和党人和白宫反建议的立法版本，但许多人表示“不够充分”，周四上午离开闭门会议的几位民主党人表示，达成协议仍遥遥无期。
鉴于谈判停滞，图恩决定按计划休会，但向议员们明确表示，如果有突破，他们需要返回。
“显然，我们已经明确告诉人们，他们必须随时准备回来投票，”图恩说。
白宫正在酝酿另一项反建议。一些参议院民主党人希望即将到来的休会和国土安全部可能关闭能成为给共和党人的“警钟”。
复杂的是，预计参众两院的几位议员将前往德国参加一年一度的慕尼黑安全会议。
“我仍然认为共和党人处于一个‘气泡’中，不理解世界范围内的愤怒有多深，”夏威夷民主党参议员布莱恩·沙茨告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
“也许这次休会能让他们回家，不仅被进步人士，还有所有认为该机构失控需要约束的人责骂。”
亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字频道报道美国参议院的记者。
Lawmakers are jetting from Washington, D.C., without a deal to prevent a partial government shutdown.
Their departure comes after the Senate was unable to send a full-year funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to President Donald Trump’s desk.
Senate Democrats doubled down on their demands for stringent reforms to immigration enforcement and bucked multiple attempts Thursday to keep the agency open.
DHS FUNDING BILL FAILS AFTER SCHUMER REJECTS TRUMP’S ICE REFORM OFFER
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Senate Democrats blocked an attempt to fund DHS for a full year, ramping up the likelihood of another partial government shutdown.(Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
With both chambers now on their way to a weeklong recess, the agency is expected to shutter at midnight Friday. Unless a deal is struck before lawmakers return, DHS will be shut down for at least that period of time.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., made the call to send lawmakers home and noted that if negotiations made a breakthrough, they would be on 24-hour notice to return. But talks, for now, are somewhere between baby steps and stuck.
“What it appears to me, at least at this point, is happening is the Democrats, like they did last fall, they really don’t want the solution,” Thune said. “They don’t want the answer. They want the political issue.”
SCHUMER, DEMS CHOOSE PARTIAL SHUTDOWN AS NEGOTIATIONS HIT IMPASSE
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., failed to splinter Senate Democrats from their unified front in his bid to fund DHS for a full year.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and his caucus blocked an attempt to pass the original DHS funding bill and a subsequent two-week funding extension.
Their resistance comes after the White House unveiled the legislative text of the administration’s counteroffer, which several Senate Democrats balked at Thursday morning.
“The administration doesn’t actually want to reform ICE,” Schumer said. “They never do it on their own. That is why we need — we are fighting for — legislation to rein in ICE and stop the violence.”
Senate Democrats have demanded a stringent list of reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). They weren’t persuaded by border czar Tom Homan that operations in Minneapolis would be drawn down as negotiations continue.
It was a déjà vu moment from months earlier, when Thune repeatedly tried to peel Democrats away from Schumer during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history but failed to break their blockade.
SHUTDOWN CLOCK TICKS AS SCHUMER, DEMOCRATS DIG IN ON DHS FUNDING DEMANDS
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters and members of the media at Mar-a-Lago Feb. 1, 2026, in Palm Beach, Fla.(Al Drago/Getty Images)
While there was optimism that negotiations were moving in a positive direction earlier this week, those hopes appeared to have shattered.
“At this point, it seems clear that the Democrats are going to walk away from that bipartisan conversation,” a senior White House official said. “They’re going to shut the department down. They’re going to deprive Americans of critical services such as FEMA, such as TSA and what will be the third partial government shutdown of this Congress.”
Senate Democrats received the legislative version of Republicans and the White House’s counteroffer Wednesday night, but many said it was “not sufficient,” and several Democrats leaving a closed-door meeting Thursday morning said a deal remained out of reach.
Given the stagnation in talks, Thune opted to go ahead with the scheduled recess, but made clear to lawmakers that if there was a breakthrough they would need to return.
“Obviously, we’ve made it clear to people that they have to be available to come back and vote,” Thune said.
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Talks of another counteroffer to the White House are in the works. Some Senate Democrats hope that the upcoming recess and likely closure of DHS will serve as a wake-up call to Republicans.
Complicating matters is that several members of the House and Senate are expected to travel to Germany for the annual Munich Security Conference.
“I still think the Republicans are in a bubble and do not understand the depth of the anger out there in the world,” Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, told Fox News Digital.
“And maybe this break will allow them to go home and get yelled at, not just by people who are progressive, but everybody who thinks that this agency is out of control and needs to be reined in.”
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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