Security lines persist at US airports as Congress negotiates DHS funding

Senate Democrats sent counteroffer on Monday aimed at resolving budget standoff Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Negotiations for Congress to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – which oversees airport security officers – remained ongoing as the airport in Atlanta, the world’s busiest, dealt with long security lines on Tuesday. A White House official confirmed that Senate Democrats sent a counteroffer on Monday aimed at resolving a budget standoff that led to a DHS shutdown into its second month. A Trump administration official confirmed to the Guardian that the offer by Democrats was under review, though Republican lawmakers were quick to dismiss the proposal. Ryan Wrasse, a spokesperson for the Republican US Senate majority leader, John Thune, mocked the move on X, suggesting the proposal was a “copy-and-paste” of previous iterations. “It took 18 days for them to hit ‘Ctrl C’ and ‘Ctrl V’,” Wrasse wrote, reposting a report by NBC’s White House correspondent Julie Tsirkin about the Democrats’ counteroffer. The stalemate unfolded after Democrats refused to fund the DHS in an attempt to force immigration enforcement reforms af