Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is in the crosshairs once again as DHS funding is up next in the Senate to avert a government shutdown. Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats have released three major demands they want before they vote on the funding bills. The moment they got leverage, Republicans forced substantial reductions in that funding, despite a Democratic Senate and a Democratic President in 2023-24. They have continued this approach ever since, including another hack at IRS funding in the funding bill that passed the House just last week with bipartisan support. There is now only about $10 billion of that $80 billion surge left, and nearly nothing for enforcement of the tax laws, the whole point of the policy.