作者：亚历克斯·米勒 | 福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年3月20日 美国东部时间上午11:00
福克斯独家： 这位参议院共和党领袖表示，尽管参议院民主党人可能是投票反对重新开放政府的人，但他们并不是掌控局面的一方。
南达科他州共和党议员、参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩在接受福克斯新闻数字版采访时表示，随着美国国土安全部（DHS）的停摆持续，是民主党选民在推动他们继续阻挠该机构的资金。
图恩称：”山上的民主党人非常害怕他们的极左翼选民。我认为极左翼选民现在的要求是’削减移民和海关执法局（ICE）的资金’、’削减执法部门的资金’，这无论如何都不是一个合理的立场。”
该机构已停摆35天，使此次最新停摆创下历史最长纪录。到目前为止，参议院民主党人已四次阻挠重新开放该机构的尝试，理由是要求对移民和海关执法局（ICE）及其特工在实地行动方面进行严格改革。
图恩指责批评者在”拯救美国法案”受挫后制造虚假期望
参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（R-S.D.）告诉福克斯新闻数字版，正是民主党极左翼选民阻止了他们重新开放国土安全部。（Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images）
谈判已停滞数周，参议院少数党领袖、纽约州民主党人查克·舒默和他的核心小组对白宫最新提议保持沉默。
这种沟通中断在本周有所缓和，民主党人回应了一份被白宫称为”不认真”的提议。周四，几名民主党谈判代表首次与参议院共和党人和边境问题专员汤姆·霍曼坐下来谈判，这进一步改善了达成协议的迹象。
同时，机场排队现象绵延数街区，工作人员无薪工作，伊朗战争后恐怖袭击的担忧也达到了高潮。图恩将于周五再次将重新开放该机构的法案提交参议院表决，预计民主党人将再次阻挠。
共和党人在”拯救法案”上不退缩，马拉松式参议院辩论拉开帷幕
参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默（D-N.Y.）和参议院民主党人试图为国土安全部的所有项目提供资金，但不包括移民行动。（Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images）
尽管如此，图恩表示此次会议”暗示向打破资金僵局又前进了一步”，但他仍对民主党人是否真正愿意达成协议以结束停摆持谨慎态度。
他还指出，直到周四，民主党人一直拒绝共和党人提出的进入谈判室解决问题的提议。他认为，正是白宫将其提议公之于众，才可能促成了最新的会谈。
图恩称：”我的印象是，至少到目前为止，民主党高层发出的指令是，他们的成员不应该与共和党人讨论如何解决这个问题，以便真正实施改革，并为一个重要部门提供资金，该部门下属的多个机构不仅对国家安全，而且对应急管理和其他事务都至关重要。”
停摆战斗中白宫透露国土安全部让步，民主党人不为所动
缅因州共和党议员苏珊·柯林斯表示，民主党人的停摆要求越来越多。（Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images）
“在我看来，至少他们——这些人——正在退缩，”他继续说道，”我认为他们相信这对他们在政治上有利。”
几名民主党人在与霍曼以及缅因州共和党议员苏珊·柯林斯和阿拉巴马州共和党议员凯蒂·布里特的会谈后拒绝置评。当被问及议员们是否更接近达成协议时，华盛顿州民主党议员帕蒂·默里表示：”没有。”
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尽管如此，共和党人仍希望僵局能很快出现突破。
柯林斯表示：”不幸的是，民主党人的要求清单越来越长，这使得谈判变得困难。但参与会谈的各方都在真诚地努力，我希望我们能很快再次举行会谈。”
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。
Thune accuses Dems of ‘running scared’ from their base as shutdown rages on | Fox News
By Alex Miller | Fox News
Published March 20, 2026 11:00am EDT
FIRST ON FOX: The top Senate Republican argued that while Senate Democrats may be the ones voting against reopening the government, they’re not the ones calling the shots.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told Fox News Digital in an interview that as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown continues, it’s Democrats’ voters who are pushing them to continue blocking funding for the agency.
“The Democrats up here on the Hill are so afraid of their far-left base,” Thune said. “And I think the far-left base, their demand right now, is defund ICE, defund law enforcement, which is not, by any stretch, a reasonable position.”
The agency has been shut down for 35 days, putting the latest closure into record-breaking territory. Senate Democrats have, so far, blocked four attempts to reopen the agency over demands for stringent reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and how agents operate in the field.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., told Fox News Digital that it was Democrats’ far-left base that was preventing them from reopening DHS.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Negotiations had ground to a halt for several weeks, with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and his caucus staying quiet on the latest offer from the White House.
That communication breakdown began to thaw this week when Democrats responded with an offer the White House dubbed unserious. And signs of a deal further improved on Thursday when a handful of Democratic negotiators sat down for the first time with Senate Republicans and border czar Tom Homan.
It also comes as lines at airports stretch for several blocks as workers go unpaid, and concerns of terrorist attacks are at a fever pitch in the wake of the Iran war. Thune will again put a bill to reopen the agency on the floor on Friday, and Democrats are again expected to block it.
REPUBLICANS SIGNAL NO RETREAT ON SAVE ACT AS MARATHON SENATE DEBATE KICKS OFF
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. and Senate Democrats are trying to fund everything at DHS except for immigration operations.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
Still, Thune said that the meeting “suggested even more movement” toward breaking the funding logjam but remained wary of Democrats actually wanting to make a deal to end the shutdown.
He also noted that until Thursday, Democrats had consistently rejected Republicans’ offers to get into a room and hash it out, and he contended that it was the White House making their offers to Democrats public that likely spurred the latest confab.
“My impression is, at least up until now, that the edict has gone out from the paternalistic Democrat fathers that none of their children should be talking to Republicans about how to solve this problem in a way that gets them actual reforms in place,” Thune said, “and funds an important department that has a number of agencies that are really critical, not only to national security, but to emergency management and other things.”
DEMS UNMOVED AS WHITE HOUSE REVEALS DHS CONCESSIONS IN SHUTDOWN BATTLE
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said Democrats’ shutdown demands keep growing and growing.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
“So it seems to me, at least they are — these guys — they are running scared,” he continued. “They, I think, believe they benefit politically from this.”
Several Democrats left the meeting with Homan and Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Katie Britt, R-Ala., declining to comment on the discussion. When asked if lawmakers were any closer to a deal, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., said, “No.”
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Still, Republicans were hopeful that there would soon be a breakthrough to the impasse.
“Unfortunately, the Democrats’ list of demands keeps growing and growing, and that makes it difficult,” Collins said. “But the group that was in there is operating in good faith, and I hope we’ll get together again very soon.”
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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