White House Calls Democrats’ Counteroffer on DHS Funding ‘Very Unserious’
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a news briefing in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington on Feb. 18, 2026. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The White House on Feb. 18 dismissed a Democratic counterproposal to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as “very unserious,” as the