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After a record long 43-day government shutdown at the end of last year another is in place, albeit only partially as it is only impacting a few federal agencies. The big points of contention between the two sides are the Democrats wanting less funding for the Department of Homeland Security and Republicans wanting to enact the SAVE Act which would require legal ID to be able to vote in elections. Jon Decker, WOR White House correspondent, spoke with Curtis Sliwa and Larry Mendte in the Morning about the chances of DHS funding being resolved.
“I think they’re going to get some movement on this now that Kristi Noem no longer heads DHS,” Decker told Sliwa and Mendte. “I’ve heard that from Republican and Democratic Senators that the dynamic has changed, with her no longer leading DHS and Markwayne Mullin coming on board, to get a deal done.”
Decker believes the issue of the SAVE Act may be harder to resolve: “I don’t see that moving anywhere… [the President knows] he needs 7 Democrats to move it forward, and John Thune, the majority leader, says he is not going to change the filibuster rules and as a result it just has languished, that bill has just languished in the U.S Senate.”
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