GOP on Thin ICE

A funny thing happened on the way to the Democrats’ latest budget capitulation. They acquired some spine.

It began when key Senate progressives, led by Chris Murphy (CT) and Elizabeth Warren (MA) were joined by more moderate colleagues in demanding that Minority Leader Chuck Schumer hold out for serious constraints on ICE as a condition of approving other parts of the 2026 budget. In the end, Democrats voted unanimously—even Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman—to strip DHS from the rest of...