Name: Trump ‘emphatically rejected’ off-ramp presented by GOP to fund parts of DHS
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As we've been talking about, security lines are growing at airports across the country.

But President Trump says that Republicans shouldn't make any deal to end the DHS shutdown unless Congress passes the Save America Act, which is the Republicans' voter ID bill.

I'm suggesting strongly to the Republican Party, don't make any deal on anything.

The most important thing we can have is what's called the Save America Act.

Don't make any deal on anything unless you include voter ID.

Republicans do not settle with Democrats and let them out of this hole that they've buried themselves in.

Well, President Trump says the bill should also include provisions that aren't in the current bill, including a ban on mail-in voting, a ban on biological men and women's sports, and

a ban on transition surgeries for transgender minors.

NBC News has learned that this weekend President Trump rejected a plan to fund all of the Department of Homeland Security except for ICE, which would reopen TSA and bring an end to the chaos at airports.

Now, according to those sources, the off-ramp was presented to the president by Majority Leader Thune and supported by numerous Republicans.

Joining me now to talk more about this is senior national political reporter Sahil Kapoor.

So there's a lot of moving parts to this story, but

it's seemingly only getting more complicated, Sahil, now that the president is tying this to DHS funding negotiations.

I have to imagine that this is just not a road that Senate Republicans are interested in going down.

The dynamic on DHS funding is looking worse today than it was a few days ago.

And the turning point was a Presidential Truth Social post last night, which I'll get to.

But in recent days, there was an off-ramp that was floated between Republicans.

It was kind of batted around between Senate Republicans, including Republican aides here, and the White House.

It was presented to John Thune, the Majority Leader.

Essentially, what it would do is it would have Republicans take Democrats up on their offer to fund the non-controversial parts of DHS, with TSA being at the top of that list, and

to save ICE and immigration funding, which is the controversial piece, for a separate filibuster-proof budget reconciliation bill that the GOP could pass without any Democratic votes.

Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, a proponent of this idea, he explained it on the Senate floor.

We can be out of the shutdown by the end of the week.

The Democrats are amenable to opening up everything at DHS, but ICE.

The very next day, we should file a budget resolution to reconciliation that funds ICE as we deem appropriate.

We don't need Democratic votes to do that.

This would be a tough thing for Democrats to turn down if Republicans did, in fact, put it on the floor, Ryan.

But it's not going to happen, it seems, because President Trump emphatically rejected it in a Truth Social post last night and doubled down on those comments today, not only saying that Republicans should cut no deal with Democrats on DHS, but

they should wait until the Save America Act passes the Senate.

That is not going to happen, as we've spoken about many times here.

Republicans don't have the votes to sustain a talking filibuster.

They don't have the votes to nuke the filibuster.

But they're still going through the stages of grief, so to speak, before they get to acceptance on that.

There's no path at this moment for either DHS funding or the Save Act, Ryan.

So, I mean, Senate Republicans have an option here, don't they, Sahil?

They could just put it on the floor, whether or not the president likes it or not, and

pass it, and then put the ball in the president's court.

Is there any chance that they would be willing to do that?

Very unlikely, Ryan, because they would have to get to a veto-proof majority to override a presidential signature.

That is not something that Republican a road that Republicans like to travel.

They generally like to work in tandem with the White House rather than get crosswise with the president.

The only one I can think of recently was the Epstein-Files Transparency Act, where they kind of muscled Trump into supporting a bill that he didn't want to support.

It's important for us to remind them of that from time to time.

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