DHS funding proposal falls flat as Democrats, conservatives and Trump raise doubts

“Any deal they make, I’m pretty much not happy with it,” the president said.

"They are getting fairly close," Trump said Tuesday in the Oval Office. "But I think any deal they make, I’m pretty much not happy with it.” | AP Photo/Alex Brandon

Key negotiators circulated a potential deal Tuesday to end a five-week standoff over Department of Homeland Security funding and, among other things, pay beleaguered transportation screeners as mounting security lines snarl airports.

Nobody in Washington, however, seems too excited about it.

The framework brokered by a handful of Senate Republicans and the White House Monday got a cool reception from Senate Democrats, who said it does nothing to rein in immigration enforcement abuses at the center of the DHS funding impasse.

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