Very early this morning the Senate passed a spending bill that would have paid TSA workers and other agencies in the DHS, but now House Speaker Mike Johnson has rejected that bill and has a better idea:

In other words, the partial shutdown might not end any time very soon. 

This is where President Trump comes in:

Remember when the Democrats were participating in "No Kings" rallies and others were calling Trump an authoritarian?

Some of those same Dems, including Sen. Tammy Duckworth, are now criticizing Trump for not circumventing Congress faster: 

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Go figure. The Democrats could have done it this whole time. 

Ari Fleischer and others have noted the irony: 

So now the "No Kings" people are taking jabs at Trump for not doing king-like things much sooner? 

Yeah, isn't that strange? 

If only the Democrats cared as much about keeping the Department of Homeland Security fully funded at a time of heightened threat levels as much as they care about protecting illegal aliens. 

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