What It Took to Disarm a DHS Budget Bomb

A fatal shooting, public outrage, and a political trap undone: the funding fight over ICE isn’t just about money. It’s about legitimacy.

As of late Thursday night, leaders in the U.S. Senate and the White House signaled what they described as a breakthrough in negotiations over government funding, with a framework to avert a partial shutdown that has been thrown into question by a deepening political crisis over immigration enforcement. However, even as both sides claimed progress, a for…