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“特朗普和其他人对2026年11月可能发生的事情感到恐慌，担心会失去众议院席位，甚至可能失去参议院控制权，”内华达州记者乔恩·劳斯通表示。《内部政治》节目小组分析了特朗普总统推动选举“联邦化”的动机，尽管宪法将这一权力赋予了各州和国会。
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‘They want to fix the election that they think they are going to lose,’ says Nevada reporter on Trump election takeover push | CNN Politics
Published 1:58 PM EST, Wed February 4, 2026 / CNN
By Dana Bash, CNN
“Trump and others are terrified about what might happen in November of 2026, losing the House, possibly losing the Senate,” Nevada journalist Jon Ralston says. The Inside Politics panel breaks down the motivation behind President Trump’s push to “federalize” elections, despite the Constitution handing that role to the states and Congress.
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发布时间 / 来源：2026年2月4日 23:42 | 联合早报
挪威王储妃之子马里乌斯·博格·霍伊比星期三（2月4日）出庭作证时落泪，承认自己因“渴望获得认可”而过着奢靡生活，但否认强奸指控。
法新社报道，现年29岁的霍伊比（Marius Borg Hoiby）是王储妃梅特—玛丽特（Mette-Marit）与前夫所生之子。
霍伊比共面临38项指控，除四项强奸罪外，还包括殴打前女友及一项严重毒品犯罪，若罪名成立，最高可判16年监禁。他对于较严重指控均表示不认罪。
霍伊比首次向法庭陈述时情绪崩溃。
他在作证时便抨击媒体，称自3岁起母亲与王储的关系曝光使他成为公众焦点后，媒体便持续“骚扰”他。
他坦言：“我主要以母亲儿子的身份为人所知，其他的什么都不是。因此我一生都极度渴求认可。这种渴求最终演变为沉溺于新盖、毒品和酒精。”
案件调查始于2024年8月，当时霍伊比因涉嫌殴打女友被捕，并承认在酒精和毒品影响下行事。调查随后揭露多起涉嫌犯罪，包括在受害者熟睡或醉酒时实施强奸，其中部分发生在警方调查启动之后。
一名声称遭到伊比强奸的女子同天在庭上作证，讲述她2018年12月的一场派对上遭到对方强奸，并怀疑当时她被下药。
她说，两人曾有过一次短暂且双方同意的性接触，但她中途叫停了。
数年后，警方在他的手机中发现了一段视频和一些照片，显示霍伊比在她睡着时强奸她。对此她毫无记忆，并将那段时间形容为“一个巨大的黑洞”。
“我简直不敢相信。我不敢相信马里乌斯会对我做出那样的事。这是一种背叛，也是一个巨大的冲击。”
当被问及是否认为自己被下药时，她回答说：“我是这么认为的。百分之百。”
（注：原文中“新盖”疑为“新盖”应为“奢侈品”或其他名词的笔误，根据上下文语境推测应为“奢侈品”相关词汇，但因原文如此，暂保留原样。）
挪威王储妃之子出庭作证 坦言生活奢靡否认强奸
发布时间 / 来源：2026年2月4日 23:42 | 联合早报
挪威王储妃之子马里乌斯·博格·霍伊比星期三（2月4日）出庭作证时落泪，承认自己因“渴望获得认可”而过着奢靡生活，但否认强奸指控。
法新社报道，现年29岁的霍伊比（Marius Borg Hoiby）是王储妃梅特—玛丽特（Mette-Marit）与前夫所生之子。
霍伊比共面临38项指控，除四项强奸罪外，还包括殴打前女友及一项严重毒品犯罪，若罪名成立，最高可判16年监禁。他对于较严重指控均表示不认罪。
霍伊比首次向法庭陈述时情绪崩溃。
他在作证时便抨击媒体，称自3岁起母亲与王储的关系曝光使他成为公众焦点后，媒体便持续“骚扰”他。
他坦言：“我主要以母亲儿子的身份为人所知，其他的什么都不是。因此我一生都极度渴求认可。这种渴求最终演变为沉溺于新盖、毒品和酒精。”
案件调查始于2024年8月，当时霍伊比因涉嫌殴打女友被捕，并承认在酒精和毒品影响下行事。调查随后揭露多起涉嫌犯罪，包括在受害者熟睡或醉酒时实施强奸，其中部分发生在警方调查启动之后。
一名声称遭到伊比强奸的女子同天在庭上作证，讲述她2018年12月的一场派对上遭到对方强奸，并怀疑当时她被下药。
她说，两人曾有过一次短暂且双方同意的性接触，但她中途叫停了。
数年后，警方在他的手机中发现了一段视频和一些照片，显示霍伊比在她睡着时强奸她。对此她毫无记忆，并将那段时间形容为“一个巨大的黑洞”。
“我简直不敢相信。我不敢相信马里乌斯会对我做出那样的事。这是一种背叛，也是一个巨大的冲击。”
当被问及是否认为自己被下药时，她回答说：“我是这么认为的。百分之百。”
作者：梅丽莎·奎因
更新时间：2026年2月4日 / 美国东部时间下午1:03 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
华盛顿 — 去年年底在华盛顿特区被指控枪击两名国民警卫队员的男子于周三对联邦指控不认罪。
29岁的阿富汗籍男子拉赫马努拉·拉坎瓦尔（Rahmanullah Lakanwal）在华盛顿联邦法院出庭受审，并作了无罪辩护。主持此案的美国地区法官阿米特·梅塔（Amit Mehta）表示，涉嫌枪手将在审判前继续被拘留。
他面临九项联邦指控，包括武装一级谋杀。
检察官称，11月26日，拉坎瓦尔在白宫附近发动伏击式袭击，枪杀了陆军 Specialist（ Specialist 此处指美军军衔，中文通常译为“ Specialist 士兵”或根据具体军种译为“ Specialist 下士”，此处保留军衔通用译法）莎拉·贝克斯托姆（Sarah Beckstrom）和空军中士安德鲁·沃尔夫（Andrew Wolfe）。贝克斯托姆和沃尔夫隶属于西弗吉尼亚国民警卫队，是应特朗普总统打击犯罪计划的部署到首都的。
20岁的贝克斯托姆头部中弹，次日死亡。24岁的沃尔夫伤势严重。
拉坎瓦尔在袭击中被另一名国民警卫队员开枪击伤。他被美国特勤局拘留。他首次出庭是通过医院病床连线进行的。
法庭文件显示，检察官称拉坎瓦尔从一名身份不明人士处购得作案用的.357口径史密斯威森左轮手枪，该人告诉调查人员，这把手枪2023年从西雅图的原主人家中被盗。拉坎瓦尔还在枪击案发生前几天从华盛顿州贝灵厄姆的一家体育用品店购买了弹药，并在谷歌地图上搜索了“华盛顿特区”和“白宫”。
检察官认为，拉坎瓦尔从他和妻子以及五个儿子居住的华盛顿州驾车前往华盛顿特区，并在枪击案发生前几天抵达。
消息人士12月告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，拉坎瓦尔2021年通过拜登政府任内推出的“盟友欢迎行动”（Operation Allies Welcome）计划来到美国。该计划是在美国政府从阿富汗混乱撤军后启动的。消息人士称，他和家人逃离了阿富汗霍斯特省塔利班的威胁，先搬到喀布尔，然后前往美国。
美国中央情报局（CIA）一名发言人证实，拉坎瓦尔在阿富汗战争期间曾与美国政府（包括中央情报局）合作。
斯科特·麦克法兰（Scott MacFarlane）为本报道提供了素材。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/new-details-on-national-guard-shooting-revealed-at-suspects-first-court-hearing/
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, D.C. National Guard shooting suspect, pleads not guilty to federal charges
By Melissa Quinn
Updated on: February 4, 2026 / 1:03 PM EST / CBS News
Washington — The man accused of shooting two members of the National Guard in Washington, D.C., late last year pleaded not guilty Wednesday to federal charges.
Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a 29-year-old Afghan national, was arraigned in federal court in Washington and entered a not-guilty plea. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, who is presiding over the case, said the suspected gunman will remain detained pending a trial.
He faces nine federal charges, including first-degree murder while armed.
Prosecutors allege that Lakanwal shot Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom and Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe in an ambush-style attack not far from the White House on Nov. 26. Beckstrom and Wolfe served in the West Virginia National Guard and had been deployed to the capital as part of President Trump’s plan to crack down on crime.
Beckstrom, 20, was shot in the head and died the next day. Wolfe, 24, was critically wounded.
Lakanwal was shot and wounded by another National Guard member during the attack. He was taken into custody by the U.S. Secret Service. He made his first court appearance virtually from a hospital bed.
Prosecutors said that Lakanwal acquired the .357 Smith & Wesson revolver used in the attack from an unnamed person, who told investigators that it had been stolen from the Seattle home of its original owner in 2023. Lakanwal also bought ammunition from a sporting goods store in Bellingham, Washington, days before the shooting and conducted a search on Google Maps for “Washington, D.C.,” and “the White House,” according to court filings.
Prosecutors believe that Lakanwal drove from Washington state, where he lived with his wife and their five sons, to Washington, D.C., and arrived several days before the shooting.
Sources told CBS News in December that Lakanwal came to the United States in 2021 as part of a program for Afghan nationals called Operation Allies Welcome, which was rolled out during the Biden administration after the U.S. government’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. He and his family fled threats from the Taliban in Afghanistan’s Khost province and moved to Kabul before traveling to the U.S., sources said.
A spokesperson for the CIA confirmed that Lakanwal had worked with the U.S. government, including the CIA, during the Afghanistan war.
Scott MacFarlane contributed to this report.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/new-details-on-national-guard-shooting-revealed-at-suspects-first-court-hearing/
发布时间：2026年2月4日 23:42 | 来源：联合早报
挪威王储妃之子马里乌斯·博格·霍伊比星期三（2月4日）出庭作证时落泪，承认自己因“渴望获得认可”而过着奢靡生活，但否认强奸指控。
法新社报道，现年29岁的霍伊比（Marius Borg Hoiby）是王储妃梅特—玛丽特（Mette-Marit）与前夫所生之子。
霍伊比共面临38项指控，除四项强奸罪外，还包括殴打前女友及一项严重毒品犯罪，若罪名成立，最高可判16年监禁。他对于较严重指控均表示不认罪。
霍伊比首次向法庭陈述时情绪崩溃。
他在作证时便抨击媒体，称自3岁起母亲与王储的关系曝光使他成为公众焦点后，媒体便持续“骚扰”他。
他坦言：“我主要以母亲儿子的身份为人所知，其他的什么都不是。因此我一生都极度渴求认可。这种渴求最终演变为沉溺于新盖、毒品和酒精。”
案件调查始于2024年8月，当时霍伊比因涉嫌殴打女友被捕，并承认在酒精和毒品影响下行事。调查随后揭露多起涉嫌犯罪，包括在受害者熟睡或醉酒时实施强奸，其中部分发生在警方调查启动之后。
一名声称遭到伊比强奸的女子同天在庭上作证，讲述她2018年12月的一场派对上遭到对方强奸，并怀疑当时她被下药。
她说，两人曾有过一次短暂且双方同意的性接触，但她中途叫停了。
数年后，警方在他的手机中发现了一段视频和一些照片，显示霍伊比在她睡着时强奸她。对此她毫无记忆，并将那段时间形容为“一个巨大的黑洞”。
“我简直不敢相信。我不敢相信马里乌斯会对我做出那样的事。这是一种背叛，也是一个巨大的冲击。”
当被问及是否认为自己被下药时，她回答说：“我是这么认为的。百分之百。”
挪威王储妃之子出庭作证 坦言生活奢靡否认强奸 | 联合早报
发布时间：2026年2月4日 23:42 | 来源：联合早报
挪威王储妃之子马里乌斯·博格·霍伊比星期三（2月4日）出庭作证时落泪，承认自己因“渴望获得认可”而过着奢靡生活，但否认强奸指控。
法新社报道，现年29岁的霍伊比（Marius Borg Hoiby）是王储妃梅特—玛丽特（Mette-Marit）与前夫所生之子。
霍伊比共面临38项指控，除四项强奸罪外，还包括殴打前女友及一项严重毒品犯罪，若罪名成立，最高可判16年监禁。他对于较严重指控均表示不认罪。
霍伊比首次向法庭陈述时情绪崩溃。
他在作证时便抨击媒体，称自3岁起母亲与王储的关系曝光使他成为公众焦点后，媒体便持续“骚扰”他。
他坦言：“我主要以母亲儿子的身份为人所知，其他的什么都不是。因此我一生都极度渴求认可。这种渴求最终演变为沉溺于新盖、毒品和酒精。”
案件调查始于2024年8月，当时霍伊比因涉嫌殴打女友被捕，并承认在酒精和毒品影响下行事。调查随后揭露多起涉嫌犯罪，包括在受害者熟睡或醉酒时实施强奸，其中部分发生在警方调查启动之后。
一名声称遭到伊比强奸的女子同天在庭上作证，讲述她2018年12月的一场派对上遭到对方强奸，并怀疑当时她被下药。
她说，两人曾有过一次短暂且双方同意的性接触，但她中途叫停了。
数年后，警方在他的手机中发现了一段视频和一些照片，显示霍伊比在她睡着时强奸她。对此她毫无记忆，并将那段时间形容为“一个巨大的黑洞”。
“我简直不敢相信。我不敢相信马里乌斯会对我做出那样的事。这是一种背叛，也是一个巨大的冲击。”
当被问及是否认为自己被下药时，她回答说：“我是这么认为的。百分之百。”
习近平表示，他周三单独与俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京通了电话
作者：布鲁克·辛曼
福克斯新闻
发布时间：2026年2月4日 美国东部时间上午11:19 | 更新时间：2026年2月4日 美国东部时间上午11:21
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普表示，他周三与中国国家主席习近平通了电话，讨论了一系列问题，包括乌克兰与俄罗斯之间的战争，同时强调他们的关系”非常良好”，将在未来几年带来”许多积极成果”。
总统和习近平还讨论了特朗普计划于4月对北京的访问，他表示自己”非常”期待这次访问。
“我刚刚与中国国家主席习近平完成了一次出色的电话交谈。这是一次漫长而彻底的通话，讨论了许多重要议题，包括贸易、军事、我将对中国进行的4月之行（我非常期待！）、台湾问题、俄罗斯/乌克兰战争、伊朗当前局势、中国从美国购买石油和天然气、中国考虑购买更多农产品（包括本季度将大豆采购量提高到2000万吨（他们已承诺下个季度采购2500万吨！））、飞机发动机交付以及众多其他议题，所有这些都非常积极！”特朗普在他的Truth Social平台上发帖称。
特朗普警告英国：在斯塔默访华后与中国做生意”非常危险”
（2025年10月30日，韩国釜山金海空军基地，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在双边会议前迎接中国国家主席习近平。）（安德鲁·哈尼克/盖蒂图片社）
他继续说道：”与中国的关系，以及我与习近平主席的个人关系，都非常良好，我们都意识到保持这种关系的重要性。我相信在我总统任期的未来三年内，与习近平主席和中华人民共和国之间将取得许多积极成果。”
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总统与习近平的通话同日，中国国家主席宣布他周三单独与俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京进行了通话。
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Trump speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on range of issues including Russia-Ukraine war
Xi said he spoke separately to Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday
By Brooke Singman
Fox News
Published February 4, 2026 11:19am EST | Updated February 4, 2026 11:21am EST
President Donald Trump said he spoke to Chinese President Xi Jinping Wednesday to discuss a range of issues, including the war between Ukraine and Russia, while stressing that their relationship “is an extremely good one” that will bring “many positive results” in the coming years.
The president and Xi also discussed Trump’s upcoming trip to Beijing in April, which he said he “very much” looks forward to.
“I have just completed an excellent telephone conversation with President Xi, of China. It was a long and thorough call, where many important subjects were discussed, including Trade, Military, the April trip that I will be making to China (which I very much look forward to!), Taiwan, the War between Russia/Ukraine, the current situation with Iran, the purchase of Oil and Gas by China from the United States, the consideration by China of the purchase of additional Agricultural products including lifting the Soybean count to 20 Million Tons for the current season (They have committed to 25 Million Tons for next season!), Airplane engine deliveries, and numerous other subjects, all very positive!” Trump posted to his Truth Social.
TRUMP WARNS UK IT’S ‘VERY DANGEROUS’ TO DO BUSINESS WITH CHINA AFTER STARMER’S BEIJING MEETING
U.S. President Donald Trump greets Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of a bilateral meeting at Gimhae Air Base on October 30, 2025, in Busan, South Korea.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
“The relationship with China, and my personal relationship with President Xi, is an extremely good one, and we both realize how important it is to keep it that way,” he continued. “I believe that there will be many positive results achieved over the next three years of my Presidency having to do with President Xi, and the People’s Republic of China.”
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The president’s call with Xi comes on the same day the Chinese president announced that he had a separate conversation Wednesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Brooke Singman is a political correspondent and reporter for Fox News Digital, Fox News Channel and FOX Business.
2026年2月4日 / 美国东部时间下午1:43 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
华盛顿 — 周三，特斯拉和Waymo的高管在参议院委员会面前为其车辆的安全性进行辩护，坚称尽管近期发生了一些事件，他们的驾驶系统比人类驾驶员更安全。
国会正在考虑如何推进立法，以制定统一的安全法规来管理自动驾驶车辆，这些车辆在主要城市中越来越普遍。目前，美国大约一半的州对自动驾驶汽车有不同的法律法规，而其他州则没有，这导致了一个零散的监管体系。
参议院商务、科学和运输委员会的参议员周三表示，他们渴望通过自动驾驶车辆消除分心或其他受影响驾驶员造成的可避免事故，但也对近期自动驾驶车辆的事故表示担忧。
“完全自动驾驶车辆有潜力减少道路上的事故，但我们已经看到了让公司在没有护栏的情况下在我们的道路上进行beta测试的风险，”该委员会的排名成员、华盛顿州参议员玛丽亚·坎特韦尔表示。
上个月，国家运输安全委员会宣布对Waymo的自动驾驶出租车在得克萨斯州奥斯汀发生的一系列事件进行调查，这些事件涉及Waymo车辆超车并未能避让校车。委员会主席泰德·克鲁兹参议员告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，这”显然是不可接受的”。本月早些时候，在加利福尼亚州圣塔莫尼卡，一辆Waymo车辆在一所小学附近撞倒了一名儿童。该公司称，这名儿童是从另一辆车后突然冲出，受了轻伤。
Waymo此前表示，它已确定一个软件问题，并在11月推出了更新来解决这个问题——但此后收到了多项违规通知。
特斯拉最近开始在奥斯汀推出其自动驾驶出租车服务。一份分析美国国家公路交通安全管理局（NHTSA）数据的报告显示，其车辆去年的撞车率可能比人类驾驶员更高。特斯拉未回应哥伦比亚广播公司新闻的置评请求。
克鲁兹问Waymo首席安全官毛里西奥·佩尼亚，自奥斯汀和圣塔莫尼卡事件以来，他们采取了哪些保障措施。
“我们非常重视这些事件，”佩尼亚说。”安全是我们的首要任务，特别是儿童和行人的安全。我们正在评估每一起事件并制定解决方案，并且我们已经在软件中纳入了许多更改，以大幅提高我们的性能。我们还与奥斯汀独立学区合作，收集不同照明模式和条件下的数据，并将这些学习成果纳入我们的系统。我们每周安全应对数千次校车相遇，并且我们正在不断学习和改进，因为我们在安全方面的工作永无止境。”
佩尼亚说，Waymo对被其车辆撞倒的女孩的分析”发现，Waymo的自动驾驶系统会比我们模型中的注意力集中的人类驾驶员反应更快。所以在这种情况下，我认为我们减轻了伤害。”
佩尼亚坚持认为Waymo的车辆仍然比人类驾驶的汽车安全得多。
“在超过1亿英里的行驶中，我们的数据显示，在我们运营的城市中，我们发生严重伤害碰撞的可能性比人类驾驶员低10倍，”佩尼亚说。”数据还显示，在我们运营的城市中，我们发生行人伤害碰撞的可能性比人类驾驶员低12倍，所以我认为我们已经在产生影响。”
南卡罗来纳大学法学副教授布莱恩特·沃克·史密斯在委员会听证会上表示，需要对自动驾驶车辆公司进行更多监督。
“不存在所谓的自动驾驶或无人驾驶汽车，”史密斯说。”开发和部署自动驾驶汽车的公司才是驾驶员。这意味着自动驾驶汽车的安全性取决于负责它们的公司。我们可以而且应该主动评估它们的可靠性。”
特斯拉车辆工程副总裁拉尔斯·莫拉维表示，美国国家公路交通安全管理局有着”安全的传统”，自20世纪70年代以来，汽车行业在减少车辆碰撞方面取得了巨大进步，但在过去约20年中，这一进展停滞不前。现在，美国每年约有4万人在车辆事故中死亡。
“我可以毫无疑问地告诉你们，减少这一数字从4万到希望有一天达到零的下一个重大飞跃将是自动驾驶技术，”莫拉维说。”简而言之，自动驾驶系统或计算机不会睡觉、不会眨眼、不会疲劳。”
共和党参议员伯尼·桑德斯问，谁对因软件或硬件故障导致的碰撞承担责任。
“当然，在自动驾驶系统软件错误发生的极不可能情况下，我们会对此事件承担责任，这与当前法律体系中如果驾驶员犯错则由其承担责任的方式类似，”特斯拉的莫拉维说。
“同样，”Waymo的佩尼亚补充道。
周三的听证会正值民主党和共和党呼吁为自动驾驶车辆制定统一的联邦标准，尽管他们可能在具体内容上存在分歧。
“如果我们希望每年拯救近4万个家庭的生命并避免悲剧，我们不需要立法者给汽车制造商强加昂贵的、几乎没有实际效果的强制规定，”克鲁兹周三表示。”相反，我们应该遵循数据和证据，这些数据和证据越来越表明先进的自动驾驶汽车可以减少碰撞并防止严重伤害。我们需要一个一致的联邦框架，以确保统一的安全标准、明确的责任划分和消费者信心。”
马萨诸塞州民主党参议员埃德·马基周二致信七家主要自动驾驶汽车公司，要求提供有关其远程协助操作（RAOs）的信息，即当自动驾驶汽车遇到棘手情况时，谁会进行干预。
马基写道：”如果没有适当的保障措施，自动驾驶汽车行业对远程协助操作的依赖可能会造成严重的安全、国家安全和隐私风险。”这些信件呼吁自动驾驶汽车行业更加透明，询问公司远程协助会话是否”远程驾驶车辆”以及发生频率等问题。
马基正在推动两项旨在提高自动驾驶汽车行业透明度的新法案。
第一项法案名为《自动驾驶安全数据法案》，要求美国国家公路交通安全管理局强制要求自动驾驶车辆提供诸如行驶里程、涉及人类驾驶员、行人和骑自行车者的事故以及未计划的停车等数据。
“我们需要行业更加诚实，这样公众才能够了解他们应该知道的所有信息，”马基说。
马基还与康涅狄格州参议员理查德·布卢门撒尔合作提出了《保持车道法案》。
该法案将要求自动驾驶汽车制造商定义其驾驶系统安全运行的道路和驾驶条件，并禁止其车辆在这些道路和条件之外运行。
康涅狄格州民主党参议员理查德·布卢门撒尔认为，这将类似于飞机制造商如何通过美国联邦航空局的标准认证飞机。
“现在我们处于’西部荒野’状态。我希望看到一些道路规则，这样汽车就能留在自己的车道上，”布卢门撒尔说。
莎拉·普洛斯和克里斯·范·克利夫为本文报道提供了帮助。
Tesla and Waymo executives defend the safety of self-driving cars before Senate committee
February 4, 2026 / 1:43 PM EST / CBS News
Washington — Top executives at Tesla and Waymo made the case for the safety of their vehicles before a Senate committee on Wednesday, insisting their driving systems are safer than human drivers, despite recent incidents.
Congress is considering how to move forward with legislation to create uniform safety regulations to govern self-driving vehicles, which are becoming increasingly common in major cities. Roughly half of U.S. states currently have differing laws and regulations governing self-driving cars, while others don’t, creating a patchwork regulatory system.
Senators on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on Wednesday expressed an eagerness to eliminate avoidable crashes from distracted or otherwise impaired drivers through autonomous vehicles, but also expressed concerns about recent autonomous vehicle incidents.
“Fully autonomous vehicles offer the potential to reduce crashes on roads, but we have seen the risk of letting companies beta test on our roads with no guardrails,” said the committee’s ranking member, Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington.
Last month, the National Transportation Safety Board announced it opened an investigation into Waymo robotaxis passing and failing to yield to school buses after a series of incidents in Austin, Texas, which Sen. Ted Cruz, the committee chairman, told CBS News is “obviously unacceptable.” In Santa Monica, California, earlier this month, a Waymo vehicle struck a child near her elementary school. The child, who the company said darted out from behind another vehicle, suffered minor injuries.
Waymo previously said it identified a software issue and launched an update in November to address the issue — but has since received multiple violations.
Tesla recently started rolling out its robotaxi service in Austin. Its vehicles may have experienced crash rates worse than human drivers last year, a report that analyzed NHTSA data showed. Tesla did not respond to CBS News’ request for comment.
Cruz asked Mauricio Peña,Waymo’s chief safety officer, what safeguards they’ve put in place since the Austin and Santa Monica incidents.
“We take those incidents very seriously,” Peña said. “Safety is our top priority, especially the safety of children and pedestrians. We are evaluating every one of those events and developing fixes to address them, and we have already incorporated many changes to our software to dramatically improve our performance. And we are working with the Austin Independent School District to collect data on different lighting patterns and different conditions, and we’re also incorporating those learnings into our systems. We do safely navigate thousands of school bus encounters every single week, and we are continuously learning and improving because our work on safety is never done.”
Peña said Waymo’s analysis into the girl struck by a Waymo vehicle “found that the Waymo driver would have responded faster than our models of an attentive human driver. So in this case, I believe that we mitigated harm.”
Peña insisted Waymo vehicles are still much safer than cars driven by humans.
“In over 100 million miles, our data shows that we are 10 times less likely to be involved in a serious injury collision as compared to human drivers in the cities where we operate,” Peña said. “And data also shows we are 12 times less likely to be involved in a pedestrian injury collision in the cities where we operate, so I think we’re making a difference already.”
Bryant Walker Smith, an associate professor of law at the University of South Carolina, told the committee hearing there needs to be more oversight of autonomous vehicle companies.
“There are no self-driving or driverless cars,” Smith said. “The companies that develop and deploy AVs are the drivers. This means that an AV is only as safe as the companies responsible for it. We can and should proactively assess their trustworthiness.”
Lars Moravy,Tesla’s vice president of vehicle engineering, said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has a “legacy of safety” and the auto industry has made leaps and bounds in improvements to reduce vehicle crashes after the 1970s, but that progress has fallen flat in the last roughly 20 years. Now, around 40,000 people in the U.S. die each year in vehicle incidents.
“I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that the next big jump we have in reducing that number from 40,000 to hopefully a day where it’s zero is autonomous driving,” Moravy said. “Simply put, an autonomous driver, the system or the computer that operates it, doesn’t sleep, doesn’t blink, and doesn’t get tired.”
Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno asked who accepts liability for a collision resulting from a software or hardware failure.
“Of course, in the unlikely event that a software error occurred in our autonomous driving system, we would take liability for that event, much in the same way that a driver takes liability in our current legal system if they make an error,” Tesla’s Moravy said.
“Likewise,” Waymo’s Peña said.
Calls for federal rules to regulate safety standards
Wednesday’s hearing comes as Democrats and Republicans are calling for uniform federal standards for autonomous vehicles, although they may differ on what that looks like.
“If we want to save lives and avoid tragedy for almost 40,000 families each year, we don’t need lawmakers saddling automakers with expensive junk mandates that make little to no real difference,” Cruz said Wednesday. “Instead, we should follow the data, follow the evidence, which increasingly shows advanced AVs reduce crashes and prevent serious injuries. We need a consistent federal framework to ensure uniform safety standards, liability clarity and consumer confidence.”
Sen. Ed Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, sent letters Tuesday to the seven major autonomous vehicle companies requesting information regarding their remote assistance operations (RAOs) or the individual who intervenes when an autonomous vehicle gets into a sticky situation.
Markey wrote, “Without proper safeguards, the AV industry’s reliance on RAOs could create serious safety, national security, and privacy risks.” The letters call for more transparency in the AV industry, asking the companies questions such as if RAOs ever “tele-drive a vehicle” and how frequently do remote assistance sessions occur.
Markey is championing two new pieces of legislation aimed at making the autonomous vehicle industry more transparent.
The first bill, called the AV Safety Data Act, would require NHTSA to mandate AV vehicle data such as miles traveled, injuries involving human drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists and unplanned stoppages.
“We need more honesty from the industry so that there is in fact transparency in everything that they know that the American public should know as well,” Markey said.
Markey also partnered with Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal to introduce the “Stay in Your Lane Act.”
The bill would require autonomous vehicle manufacturers to define the roads and driving conditions in which their driving systems are safe and designed to operate in and would prohibit their vehicles from operating outside of those roads and conditions.
Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut sees it working similar to how airplane manufacturers can certify a plane as meeting FAA standards.
“Right now we have the Wild West. I want to see some rules of the road so that cars stay within their lanes, so to speak,” Blumenthal said.
Sarah Ploss and Kris Van Cleave contributed to this report.
发布时间 / 来源：2026-02-04T15:41:24.000Z / 联合早报
据报道，《华盛顿邮报》是在星期三（2月4日）的一次视频会议上告知员工关于裁员的消息。图为华邮位于华盛顿的总部。 （路透社）
（华盛顿讯）美国媒体报道，另一家美国大报《华盛顿邮报》计划展开大规模裁员，预计新闻编辑部将裁减数百名记者，严重影响报社在本地、国际和体育新闻方面的报道。
《纽约时报》报道，华邮是在星期三（2月4日）的一次视频会议上告知员工关于裁员的消息。华邮执行总编辑默里（Matt Murray）在会议上说：“我们正在采取的措施包括进行广泛的战略调整，并大幅裁员。”
纽时引述一名了解华邮战略的人士说，华邮领导层正在采取措施挽救这家机构；通过裁员，华邮试图使其内容更好地契合读者的喜好。
纽时说，华邮的裁员决定表明，华邮老板、也是美国互联网巨头亚马逊公司创始人贝索斯，虽然凭借在网上卖东西成为世界最富有的人之一，但他尚未找到在互联网上建立和维持盈利出版物的方法。在贝索斯入主后的最初几年，华邮发展迅速，但近年来却步履维艰。
2023年底，贝索斯聘请曾任道琼斯公司首席执行官和《华尔街日报》出版人的英国媒体人刘易斯（William John Lewis）担任华邮出版人，希望为华邮找到取得盈利之道。刘易斯尝试了多项改革措施来重塑华邮，尤其是大力运用人工智能（AI）技术来驱动评论、播客和新闻聚合等功能。
但是，在2024年的一次员工会议上，刘易斯警告，华邮正处于困境。“我们正在亏损巨额资金。近年来，你们的读者数量减少了一半。人们不再阅读你们的内容了。”
华邮并非唯一在盈利困境中挣扎的报社。许多媒体的纸版发行量持续暴跌，而数码流量则受到生成式AI技术的阻碍，受众也分散到各个社交媒体平台。为了弥补损失，各家报社只能尝试不同的收入来源，例如举办活动和推出高级会员服务。
纽时：华邮计划裁掉数百名记者
发布时间 / 来源：2026-02-04T15:41:24.000Z / 联合早报
据报道，《华盛顿邮报》是在星期三（2月4日）的一次视频会议上告知员工关于裁员的消息。图为华邮位于华盛顿的总部。 （路透社）
（华盛顿讯）美国媒体报道，另一家美国大报《华盛顿邮报》计划展开大规模裁员，预计新闻编辑部将裁减数百名记者，严重影响报社在本地、国际和体育新闻方面的报道。
《纽约时报》报道，华邮是在星期三（2月4日）的一次视频会议上告知员工关于裁员的消息。华邮执行总编辑默里（Matt Murray）在会议上说：“我们正在采取的措施包括进行广泛的战略调整，并大幅裁员。”
纽时引述一名了解华邮战略的人士说，华邮领导层正在采取措施挽救这家机构；通过裁员，华邮试图使其内容更好地契合读者的喜好。
纽时说，华邮的裁员决定表明，华邮老板、也是美国互联网巨头亚马逊公司创始人贝索斯，虽然凭借在网上卖东西成为世界最富有的人之一，但他尚未找到在互联网上建立和维持盈利出版物的方法。在贝索斯入主后的最初几年，华邮发展迅速，但近年来却步履维艰。
2023年底，贝索斯聘请曾任道琼斯公司首席执行官和《华尔街日报》出版人的英国媒体人刘易斯（William John Lewis）担任华邮出版人，希望为华邮找到取得盈利之道。刘易斯尝试了多项改革措施来重塑华邮，尤其是大力运用人工智能（AI）技术来驱动评论、播客和新闻聚合等功能。
但是，在2024年的一次员工会议上，刘易斯警告，华邮正处于困境。“我们正在亏损巨额资金。近年来，你们的读者数量减少了一半。人们不再阅读你们的内容了。”
华邮并非唯一在盈利困境中挣扎的报社。许多媒体的纸版发行量持续暴跌，而数码流量则受到生成式AI技术的阻碍，受众也分散到各个社交媒体平台。为了弥补损失，各家报社只能尝试不同的收入来源，例如举办活动和推出高级会员服务。
发布于2026年2月4日，美国东部时间上午11:04 / 美国有线电视新闻网
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一名被派往明尼苏达州协助处理特朗普政府在双城实施移民打击行动的移民和海关执法局（ICE）律师，在向法官表示因工作负担过重且政府明显无法遵守法院命令而认为这份工作“糟糕”后，已被调离其职位。
据知情人士透露，该律师朱莉·勒（Julie Le）已被调回ICE的原岗位。
在周二与联邦法官的一次极为坦率的交流中，勒被要求解释政府为何未能及时遵守一系列源自她所处理移民案件的法院命令。她承认，政府在当地缺乏足够的律师来跟上“地铁行动”（Operation Metro Surge）的进度，而试图修正错误就像“拔牙一样困难”。
“他们不堪重负，需要帮助，所以，我，我不得不说，我愚蠢地（主动）说了这些，”她告诉美国联邦地区法官杰里·布莱克韦尔（Jerry Blackwell）。法官正以多次违反其在移民案件中发布的命令为由，威胁将她和另一名律师视为藐视法庭。
“有时候我希望你直接判我藐视法庭，法官大人，这样我就能有整整24小时的睡眠时间。我日夜工作，只是因为还有人被关押在那里，”勒说。
“而且，是的，目前的程序确实很糟糕。我正在努力改进，”她继续说道，“我在这里，法官大人。你想让我做什么？这个系统很糟糕。这份工作很糟糕。我正用尽每一口气来确保我能满足你的要求。”
自打击行动开始以来，勒和其他在明尼苏达州处理移民案件的政府律师，因案件中出现的一系列失误，正面临当地法官的严密审查。上周，该州联邦初审法院的首席法官表示，ICE“在2026年1月可能违反的法院命令数量超过了某些联邦机构在其整个存续期间违反的命令数量”，并特别指出近几周有近100项法院命令被违反。
这些命令包括要求政府立即释放移民拘留者，而法官们认定这些移民在明尼苏达州或得克萨斯州被非法拘留——他们中的许多人是在双城被捕后被空运到得州的。包括布莱克韦尔在内的法官们还对ICE在一些移民身上施加的释放条件感到不满，因为法院并未明确允许该机构制定此类条件。
“我需要发10封电子邮件才能纠正一个释放条件，”勒周二告诉布莱克韦尔，“我需要两次升级并威胁要离职，才能让问题得到纠正。”
尽管布莱克韦尔表示他认为勒和司法部律师安娜·沃斯（Ana Voss，同样面临藐视法庭的威胁）“是出于善意并在困难环境下工作”，但他警告他们，“法院命令不是咨询性的，也不是有条件的。”
“任何机构都不能将其视为可选的，而自行决定如何或是否遵守法院命令，”法官说。
布莱克韦尔补充道：“认为拘留人数过多、案件过多、截止日期紧迫，且没有足够基础设施来应对，这不能成为继续拘留的理由。如果有什么的话，这应该是一个警示信号。”
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Trump admin. attorney leaves Minnesota after telling judge her job ‘sucks’ amid crush of immigration cases
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An Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney detailed to Minnesota to help handle the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities has been removed from her post after telling a judge that the job “sucks” because of the crushing workload and the government’s apparent inability to comply with court orders.
The attorney, Julie Le, was sent back to her job at ICE, according to a source familiar with the matter.
In an extraordinarily candid exchange with a federal judge on Tuesday, Le, who had been asked to explain why the administration was not promptly complying with a slew of court orders stemming from immigration cases she’s handling, admitted that the government did not have enough lawyers on the ground to adequately keep up with Operation Metro Surge and that trying to get errors fixed is like “pulling teeth.”
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“They are overwhelmed and they need help, so I, I have to say, stupidly (volunteered),” she told US District Judge Jerry Blackwell, who is threatening to hold her and another lawyer in contempt for repeated violations of orders he’s issued in immigration cases.
“Sometime I wish you would just hold me in contempt, your honor, so that I can have a full 24 hours of sleep. I work days and night just because people (are) still in there,” Le said.
“And, yes, procedure in place right now sucks. I’m trying to fix it,” she continued. “I am here with you, your honor. What do you want me to do? The system sucks. This job sucks. And I am trying every breath that I have so that I can get you what you need.”
Le and the other administration lawyers working on immigration cases in Minnesota since the crackdown began have been facing intense scrutiny from the judges there over a slew of missteps in the cases. Last week, the chief judge of the state’s federal trial-level court said ICE “has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence” and specifically called out nearly 100 court orders he said had been violated in recent weeks.
Among those orders are ones requiring the government to immediately release immigrant detainees whom judges determined were being held unlawfully in Minnesota or Texas, where many of them were flown after being arrested in the Twin Cities. Judges, including Blackwell, were also frustrated by release conditions ICE had imposed on some immigrants since the court had not specifically allowed the agency to fashion such conditions.
“It takes 10 e-mails to get a release condition to be corrected,” Le told Blackwell on Tuesday. “It take two escalation and a threat that I will walk out for that to be corrected.”
Though Blackwell said he thought Le and Justice Department attorney Ana Voss, who is also facing a contempt threat, were “working in good faith and under difficult circumstances,” he warned them that “a court order is not advisory and it is not conditional.”
“It is not something that any agency can treat as optional while it decides how or whether to comply with the court order,” the judge said.
“Having what you feel are too many detainees, too many cases, too many deadlines, and not enough infrastructure to keep up with it all, is not a defense to continued detention. If anything, it ought to be a warning sign,” Blackwell added.
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2026年2月4日 美国东部时间上午10:30
众议院挫败了共和党人对特朗普支持的结束最新部分政府停摆的资金方案的反对，而上议院议员并不确信国会能在未来几周内避免再次陷入同样的困境。
唐纳德·特朗普总统与参议院少数党领袖、纽约州民主党人查克·舒默上周达成协议，结束了停摆。这项资金休战协议包括将有争议的国土安全部（DHS）资金法案搁置一旁，转而进行短期延期以维持该机构的运转。
众议院通过了这项为国会管辖范围内12个政府机构中的11个提供资金的法案，这为白宫与参议院民主党人就国土安全部改革进行紧张谈判铺平了道路。
[政府停摆有望结束，因议长约翰逊克服共和党叛乱]
唐纳德·特朗普总统和参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默上周达成协议，结束了停摆。(Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press/AP; Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
但几名参议院共和党人质疑，从周三开始，原本已缩短至仅9天的两周时间是否足够避免另一次部分停摆——这次仅针对国土安全部。
“我认为在两周内完成（国土安全部资金法案）非常困难，”佛罗里达州共和党参议员里克·斯科特告诉福克斯新闻数字版。
斯科特是上议院少数几个拒绝妥协计划和原始法案的共和党人之一，原因是专项拨款支出膨胀，以及对参议院民主党人可能会有效削弱美国移民和海关执法局（ICE）在全国行动的担忧。
“我们会陷入更糟糕的境地，”斯科特说，“我的意思是……所有的专项拨款都通过了，而现在他们又想，你知道，他们想忙着削弱并削减ICE的资金。”
国会民主党人希望在明尼阿波利斯的一次移民执法行动中亚历克斯·普雷蒂被致命枪击后重新讨论两党国土安全部法案。这一要求迫使特朗普进行干预，并在周五将政府推向部分停摆。
尽管这项（资金协议）已送到他的办公桌上，但考虑到议员们需要谈判这项法案的时间很短，而这项法案一贯是每年最难通过的支出法案，国会仍无法摆脱困境。
参议院多数党领袖、南达科他州共和党人约翰·图恩指出，一旦谈判开始，国会将在“非常短的时间内”完成这项工作，而他对此持反对态度。
[特朗普削弱共和党将“拯救法案”附加到停摆法案上的努力，保守派威胁叛乱]
“但民主党坚持，你知道，两周的窗口期，这一点我再次不明白其道理，”图恩说，“任何了解这里情况的人都知道这是不可能的。”
一些参议院民主党人不愿对即将到来的假设情景置评，但亚利桑那州民主党参议员马克·凯利认为，由于明尼苏达州的事件，“两党应该有动力去处理这些问题。”
“我的意思是，我认为[国土安全部部长] [克里斯蒂·诺姆]应该被解雇，美国移民和海关执法局的领导层需要更换，他们的预算规模需要合理，”凯利说，“我们要让他们看起来像正常的警察。”
参议院拨款委员会主席、缅因州共和党人苏珊·柯林斯则持较为积极的态度。
[特朗普与舒默达成政府资金协议，过程中牺牲了国土安全部支出法案]
参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩认为，强制ICE特工佩戴随身摄像机可以作为民主党人的“甜头”。(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
她告诉福克斯新闻数字版，国会将处于更好的位置，因为议员们将通过12项联邦政府拨款法案中的11项。
“我们现在将开始就国土安全部进行谈判，我希望我们能成功，但我不明白如何比较我们今天的处境，”柯林斯说。
图恩认为，诺姆宣布明尼阿波利斯的ICE特工将开始佩戴随身摄像机，这可能会成为民主党人的“甜头”。目前的两党国土安全部资金法案中已包含2000万美元用于购置随身摄像机。
舒默拒绝了诺姆的这一橄榄枝，认为这与民主党人希望该机构进行的一系列改革相去甚远。他重申，参议院民主党人希望国土安全部改革能有实际的立法行动，而不是行政命令。
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“我们知道唐纳德·特朗普是多么反复无常，”舒默说，“他今天说一件事，明天就收回。诺姆部长也是如此。”
“所以，我们不信任某些行政命令，不信任某个内阁部长的某些声明。我们需要将其写入法律。”
当被问及议员是否需要转向另一个短期资金补丁时，舒默表示：“如果图恩领袖真诚谈判，我们可以完成。我们期望很快向共和党人提出一个非常严肃、详细的提案。”
但图恩几天来一直表示，将由白宫主导谈判，最终可能由特朗普促成新的协议。
“但显然，在某些时候，必须有[白宫参与]与参议院民主党人的对话，这才是最终的解决办法，”图恩说。
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。
Shutdown averted for now, but Senate warns DHS fight could trigger another in days
By Alex Miller | Fox News
Published February 4, 2026 10:30am EST
As the House crushed Republican resistance to a Trump-backed funding package to end the latest partial government shutdown, lawmakers in the upper chamber weren’t confident that Congress could avoid being in the same position in the coming weeks.
President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., brokered the deal to end the shutdown last week. That funding truce included a move to sideline the controversial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill in favor of a short-term extension to keep the agency open.
The House’s passage of the package, which funds 11 out of 12 government agencies under Congress’ purview, sets the stage for tense negotiations between the White House and Senate Democrats over reforms to DHS.
[END OF GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN IN SIGHT AS SPEAKER JOHNSON OVERCOMES GOP REVOLT]
President Donald Trump and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer brokered the deal to end the shutdown last week.(Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press/AP; Jacquelyn Martin/AP)
But several Senate Republicans are questioning whether two weeks, which had shrunk to just nine days as of Wednesday, would be enough time to avert another partial shutdown — this time only for DHS.
“I think it’s gonna be very difficult to get the [funding bill done for DHS] in two weeks,” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital.
Scott was one of a handful of Republicans in the upper chamber that rejected the compromise plan and the underlying original package because of bloated spending on earmarks and concerns that Senate Democrats would effectively try to kneecap Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations across the country.
“We’re going to be in a worse spot,” Scott said. “I mean… all their earmarks got done, and then now they’re going to want to, you know, they want to [get] busy de-fanging and defunding ICE.”
Congressional Democrats wanted to relitigate the bipartisan DHS bill after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis. The demand forced Trump to intervene and thrust the government into a partial shutdown on Friday.
While the [funding deal] made it across his desk, it won’t get Congress out of the jam it’s in, given the short amount of time lawmakers have to negotiate the bill, which is consistently the most difficult spending bill to pass year in and year out.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., noted that once negotiations began, Congress had a “very short timeframe in which to do this, which I am against.”
[TRUMP UNDERCUTS GOP PUSH TO ATTACH SAVE ACT TO SHUTDOWN BILL AS CONSERVATIVES THREATEN MUTINY]
Sen. Rick Scott demanded that his House Republican colleagues reject the Senate-passed funding package unless it included DHS spending and voter ID legislation.(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
“But the Democrats insisted on, you know, a two-week window, which, again, I don’t understand the rationale for that,” Thune said. “Anybody who knows this place knows that’s an impossibility.”
Some Senate Democrats did not want to weigh in on a hypothetical scenario just days away, but Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., contended that because of the events in Minnesota, “there should be some motivation across the aisle to do something on, you know, all these issues.”
“I mean, I think [DHS Secretary] [Kristi Noem] should be fired, leadership needs to be changed at ICE, their budget needs to be the right size,” Kelly said. “We got to get them looking like normal police officers.”
Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, struck a more positive tone.
[TRUMP, SCHUMER REACH GOVERNMENT FUNDING DEAL, SACRIFICE DHS SPENDING BILL IN THE PROCESS]
Senate Majority Leader John Thune thought that ICE agents being forced to wear bodycams would act as a sweetener for Democrats.(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
She told Fox News Digital that Congress would be in a much better position, considering that lawmakers will have passed 11 out of the 12 bills needed to fund the federal government.
“We’ll now start the negotiations on DHS, and I hope we’ll be successful, but I don’t see how you can compare where we are today,” Collins said.
Thune believed that Noem’s announcement that ICE agents in Minneapolis would begin wearing body-worn cameras could act as a sweetener for Democrats. There is already $20 million baked into the current bipartisan DHS funding bill for body cameras.
Schumer rejected that olive branch from Noem, arguing that it didn’t come nearly close enough to the portfolio of reforms Democrats wanted for the agency. And he reaffirmed that Senate Democrats wanted actual legislative action on DHS reforms, not an executive order.
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“We know how whimsical Donald Trump is,” Schumer said. “He’ll say one thing one day and retract it the next. Same with Secretary Noem.”
“So, we don’t trust some executive order, some pronouncement from some Cabinet secretary. We need it enshrined into law.”
When asked if lawmakers would need to turn to another short-term funding patch, Schumer argued that “if Leader Thune negotiates in good faith, we can get it done. We expect to present to the Republicans a very serious, detailed proposal very shortly.”
But Thune has said for several days that it would be the White House in the driver’s seat, and ultimately it would be Trump who could broker a new deal.
“But at some points, obviously it has to be the [White House engaged] in the conversation with the Senate Democrats, and that’s how that thing’s gonna land,” Thune said.
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
