2026年2月12日，美国东部时间凌晨5:30 | 《华盛顿邮报》
除非国会议员与白宫在最后一刻达成协议为其提供资金，否则国土安全部的大部分部门将于周六停摆。
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参议院少数党领袖查尔斯·E·舒默（D-纽约州）（左）和众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯（D-纽约州）在12月国会山举行的新闻发布会上。（德米特里厄斯·弗里曼/《华盛顿邮报》）
作者：西奥多里克·迈耶（Theodoric Meyer）和莱利·贝金（Riley Beggin）
除非国会议员达成最后一刻的协议为国土安全部（DHS）提供资金，否则其大部分部门将于周六停摆，民主党人威胁将反对任何不包含对联邦移民局新限制条款的立法。
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上月联邦移民局特工在明尼阿波利斯杀死亚历克斯·普雷蒂后，民主党人要求国土安全部进行一系列重大改革，包括对搜查令制定更严格的规定以及禁止特工佩戴口罩。白宫对其中一些要求持开放态度，但在该部门资金即将耗尽的前几天，双方仍未达成协议。
参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（R-南达科他州）表示，他认为有可能达成妥协，并要求民主党人在此期间同意为国土安全部达成一项短期资金协议。
“我希望我们的民主党朋友能留在谈判桌前，给谈判更多时间成熟。”图恩周三在参议院表示。
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据一位不愿具名的知情人士透露，白宫周三晚间向民主党人发送了一份详细提案，以讨论正在进行的谈判。但目前尚不清楚双方能否达成协议。
“如果他们不加入限制移民和海关执法局（ICE）的条款，就不会得到我们的支持。”参议院少数党领袖查尔斯·E·舒默（D-纽约州）在收到提案前对记者表示，他指的是美国移民和海关执法局——民主党人批评最严厉的国土安全部下属机构。“简单来说。”
众议院也需要通过任何最后一刻为该机构提供资金的协议。共和党在众议院的多数席位极为微弱，众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯（D-纽约州）表示，民主党不会支持任何没有对该机构进行“重大改革”的国土安全部资金法案。
资金中断将触发近三个月内第三次全面或部分联邦政府停摆。去年秋天，两党就《平价医疗法案》补贴到期问题陷入僵局，导致政府停摆43天；随后，上周政府大部分部门再次停摆数日。
此次停摆仅影响国土安全部——但不会导致移民和海关执法局（ICE）或美国海关与边境保护局（CBP）停摆，因为共和党去年向这两个机构追加了数百亿美元资金，足以维持其运作。
相反，停摆的主要影响将落在运输安全管理局（TSA）、联邦紧急事务管理局（FEMA）、海岸警卫队及国土安全部内的其他机构身上。根据国土安全部和人事管理办公室的数据，这将影响约13%的联邦文职人员，其中大多数人将被迫无薪工作。
共和党人强调，如果国土安全部资金中断，与政府移民政策无关的机构也将受到潜在影响。
“运输安全管理局的工作人员将再次在无薪的情况下继续保障我们的航空安全，他们的痛苦将显而易见。”负责国土安全拨款小组委员会的众议员马克·阿莫代伊（R-内华达州）周三表示。“海岸警卫队的工作人员也将面临不确定性——他们别无选择，只能继续工作。……这还将削减灾害救济基金的资金——而就在几周前，大规模冬季风暴已席卷美国大片地区。”
参议院预计周四就为国土安全部提供至9月30日的资金法案进行投票，但民主党人几乎一致表示，若不包含对移民局新限制条款，他们将反对任何为其提供资金的法案。
内华达州民主党参议员凯瑟琳·科尔特斯·马斯托（Catherine Cortez Masto）去年停摆期间曾违背党内立场，投票支持共和党提出的资金法案，但她周二表示此次不会再这样做。
“我们要求我们的同事和白宫与我们合作。”科尔特斯·马斯托对记者表示。“这是常识。请与我们合作。不幸的是，我们没有看到这种合作。”
民主党人要求的新限制措施包括：要求联邦移民局特工佩戴身份标识和随身摄像头；禁止他们在学校、医疗机构、教堂、投票站、儿童保育机构和法院附近活动；确保州和地方司法机构能够调查和起诉特工可能犯下的罪行及滥用武力行为等其他要求。
共和党人批评了民主党人的许多要求，认为这些要求会不必要地削弱特工的工作能力。图恩表示，他预计白宫会提出自己的要求，包括为联邦移民局特工提供新的保护措施，以及打击限制与联邦移民当局合作的城市（有时被称为“庇护城市”）的措施。
“太多地方禁止当地警察与移民执法部门合作，这种政策不仅违背常识，还会让所有人的处境更加危险。”图恩周一在参议院表示。“因此，我希望我的民主党同事准备好讨论这些问题和其他相关议题。”
艾米丽·戴维斯（Emily Davies）对本文亦有贡献。
Partial government shutdown looms as ICE negotiations stall – The Washington Post
February 12, 2026 at 5:30 a.m. EST Today at 5:30 a.m. EST | The Washington Post
Large swaths of the Department of Homeland Security are set to shut down Saturday unless lawmakers and the White House strike a last-minute deal.
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Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York), left, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) during a news conference on Capitol Hill in December. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post)
By Theodoric Meyer
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Large swaths of the Department of Homeland Security are set to shut down Saturday unless lawmakers strike a last-minute deal to fund the agency, with Democrats threatening to oppose any legislation that does not include new restrictions on federal immigration agents.
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Democrats demanded a long list of changes to DHS after federal immigration agents killed Alex Pretti last month in Minneapolis, including tighter rules on warrants and a ban on agents wearing face masks. The White House is open to some of them, but the two sides have not reached an agreement days before the department is set to run out of money.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) said he thinks a compromise is possible and asked Democrats to agree to a short-term funding deal for DHS in the meantime.
“I hope our Democrat friends will remain at the table and give talks more time to mature,” Thune said Wednesday on the Senate floor.
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The White House sent a detailed proposal to Democrats on Wednesday night, according to a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing negotiations. But it remains unclear whether the two sides can reach an agreement.
“If they don’t add things that will rein in ICE, they are not getting our votes,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-New York) told reporters Wednesday before receiving the proposal, referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the branch of DHS that Democrats have criticized most. “Plain and simple.”
The House would also need to pass any last-minute deal to fund the agency. Republicans have a perilously narrow majority in the chamber, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) has said Democrats will not support any DHS funding bill without “dramatic changes” to the agency.
A funding lapse would trigger the third full or partial federal government shutdown in barely three months. The government shuttered for 43 days in the fall amid a standoff between the two parties over expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies; that was followed by a shutdown of much of the government for several days that ended last week.
This shutdown would affect only DHS — but it would not shutter ICE or U.S. Customs and Border Protection, because Republicans sent those agencies tens of billions of dollars in additional funding last year that would allow them to continue to operate.
Instead, the brunt of a shutdown would fall on the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Coast Guard and other agencies within DHS. It would affect about 13 percent of the federal civilian workforce, most of whom would be forced to work without pay, according to data from DHS and the Office of Personnel Management.
Republicans have emphasized the potential impact on agencies unrelated to the administration’s immigration efforts if DHS funding lapses.
“The pain will be felt by the men and women of TSA, who will once again work to keep our airways safe without a paycheck,” Rep. Mark Amodei (R-Nevada), who chairs the appropriations subcommittee on homeland security, said Wednesday. “There will be uncertainty for our Coast Guard men and women — who have no choice but to show up for work. … It will reduce the amount of funding in the Disaster Relief Fund — just weeks after massive winter storms affected wide swaths of the country.”
The Senate is expected to vote Thursday on taking up legislation to fund the agency through Sept. 30, but Democrats have said almost unanimously that they will oppose any bill to fund DHS without new restrictions on immigration agents.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada), who broke with her party during last year’s shutdown and voted for a Republican funding bill, said Tuesday that she would not do so this time.
“We are asking our colleagues and the White House to work with us,” Cortez Masto told reporters. “It’s common sense. Work with us. Unfortunately, we are not seeing that.”
Democrats have demanded new restrictions including requiring federal immigration agents to wear identification and body cameras, and barring them from operating near schools, medical facilities, churches, polling places, child care facilities and courts. They also want to ensure that states and local jurisdictions can investigate and prosecute potential crimes committed by agents and excessive use of force, among other demands.
Republicans have criticized many of the Democrats’ demands, arguing that they would needlessly hamstring agents. Thune has said he expects the White House to make its own demands, including new protections for federal immigration agents and measures cracking down on cities that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities, sometimes known as “sanctuary cities.”
“Too many jurisdictions prohibit local police from cooperating with immigration enforcement, a policy that not only defies common sense, but makes things more dangerous for everyone,” Thune said Monday on the Senate floor. “And so I hope that my Democrat colleagues are prepared to talk about these and other issues.”
Emily Davies contributed to this report.
