At a press conference the following day, Schumer announced his party’s demands for greenlighting the Homeland Security bill. The parties would have broad agreement on 11 funding bills while they tried to hammer out a new version for Homeland Security. Republicans also have other incentives to dare Democrats to vote for the Homeland Security bill as-is. Renegotiating the Homeland Security bill is also even harder than it sounds. “The package will not come back through the House without funding for the Department of Homeland Security.” All these factors make Option 1 difficult.