Washington is once again drifting toward shutdown territory, and the fault line is familiar. Democrats are refusing to support Department of Homeland Security funding without changes to how immigration enforcement operates, while the Trump administration is signaling there are hard limits to what it will concede. Based on the Sunday show circuit, there is only one area of real overlap right now: body cameras. Everything else remains deeply contested.
Administrative warrants are the clearest red line. The administration is not going to rely on judges in sanctuary jurisdictions to greenlight enforcement actions, and Democrats know that demand is dead on arrival. Masks are the most emotionally charged issue, driven by organized counter protest activity and real concerns about harassment of agents and their families. But politically, masks are a losing argument in a low trust environment. The public instinctively recoils from anonymous state power, even if it understands the risks officers face.
