President Donald Trump’s move to instruct the Homeland Security Department to pay its employees during its partial shutdown may backfire by leaving no sense of urgency for Congress to fund the agency.
Trump’s decision has sparked legal questions and continued tensions between the White House and Congress. It’s taken pressure off lawmakers to negotiate new funding around disputes over immigration and border security, even though those issues remain a top White House priority, and could still lead to furloughs at DHS if the White House runs out of ways to shift money.
The executive order would pay DHS workers through ...