The DHS Shutdown Is Ending, But...
Trump urged Congress to fund ICE and Border Patrol through reconciliation, a directive Republican leaders said they would follow.

SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYCredibility rates WCBM News-Talk Radio, which republished this story. The other scores rate the article itself.
The page appears to reproduce Townhall material, including its branded editor’s note, without a clear byline or disclosure of licensing. The article’s polemical framing and limited sourcing also reduce confidence in the reporting.
- Source type — A local radio news site republishes material that appears to originate with a partisan publisher.
- Editorial standards — The opening uses overtly partisan judgments and presents contested blame as the article's own assertion.
- Transparency — The page gives no author attribution for the article and does not explain its relationship to the apparent source.
The article includes concrete details about the proposed funding approach and quotes leaders’ statements, but it offers little independent sourcing or context and advances a strongly partisan account of responsibility for the shutdown.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The piece reports the Republican plan and includes criticism of Republican handling, but it offers no Democratic response to its claim that Democrats caused the shutdown and uses overtly partisan framing.
- Counterarguments presented — No response from Democrats appears alongside the article’s claim that they caused the shutdown.
- Loaded language — The opening calls the episode a “Republican circus” and describes Democrats as responsible for a “Democrat-caused shutdown.”
- Source diversity — The article centers Republican leaders’ statements and provides no opposing political perspective.
The article uses explicit conservative framing, describes Democrats as responsible for the shutdown, and invokes a “Radical Left” in a quoted statement without offering an opposing account.
- Language tone — The opening calls the process a “Republican circus” but also labels the shutdown Democrat-caused and uses the phrase “Radical Left Democrats.”
- Framing — The article assigns blame to Democrats and presents the Republican funding plan as a response to the shutdown.
- Source selection — It relies on Republican leaders’ statements and social-media posts without including a Democratic response.
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Republican leaders said they would pursue a two-track plan to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security through appropriations and fund ICE and Border Patrol through reconciliation. The article criticizes the handling of the shutdown while blaming Democrats for causing it.
The article says House Republicans would support a plan associated with Senate Majority Leader John Thune: fund most of DHS through an appropriations bill and address funding for ICE and Border Patrol through reconciliation. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Thune said Republicans would pursue both tracks, following a directive from President Donald Trump.
The opening argues that the shutdown was caused by Democrats and criticizes the multiple funding rounds as a “Republican circus.” It also says House Republican leaders had criticized a similar approach before reversing course.
Community verdict
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SWIPE →President who directed Congress to fund ICE and Border Patrol through reconciliation
Senate Majority Leader and participant in the DHS funding plan
Thune's version of this story ↗Speaker of the House and participant in the DHS funding plan
Johnson's version of this story ↗Part of a bigger story
5 OUTLETSOutlets describe efforts to fund most of DHS while addressing immigration-enforcement funding separately as the shutdown continued; Trump weighed in on the response. Center outlets focus on Trump's promise to pay affected DHS employees and the shutdown's status, while right-leaning outlets stress his push for separate immigration-enforcement funding and Republican divisions over the plan.
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