U.S. Sens. Angus King and Susan Collins often portray themselves as pragmatic dealmakers, but that’s not the role they’re playing in the current stalemate over Department of Homeland Security funding.

Ahead of a deadline to seek reforms for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, Maine’s senators appear to be in lockstep with their respective caucuses.

The Senate must pass a funding measure for DHS by the end of Friday to keep the department open. Democrats and King, an independent who caucuses with them, are not budging in seeking various reforms for ICE and Customs and Border Protection before agreeing to fund the controversial agencies, which have been at the center of President Donald Trump’s recent immigration crackdown.

Top Democrats sent their Republican counterparts a 10-point plan last week on ICE reforms, with highlights including requirements for agents to display their identification and not wear masks, along with mandates for officers to have judicial warrants to enter private property and to follow “reasonable” use-of-force rules.

The White House reportedly responded with a one-page outline that signaled Republicans will not agree to the demands.

A compromise does not yet look likely ahead of the weekend, though Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, said an initial vote is set for Thursday. Trump’s signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act, approved last summer, gave $75 billion to ICE that it could continue to access during a shutdown.

Public polling has indicated a growing majority of Americans disapprove of ICE and its aggressive tactics. Federal agents killed two U.S. citizens in Minnesota in January, and Maine also saw protests over a ramped-up ICE operation that targeted the Portland and Lewiston areas.

Collins, the Senate Appropriations Committee chair who is reportedly not involved in the Homeland Security negotiations, said last week that she felt Democrats had “greatly expanded” their demands beyond their original asks for body-worn cameras, de-escalation training for immigration agents and more oversight from independent inspectors general.

“I personally think we could use a little longer for these negotiations,” said Collins, who is seeking a sixth term in November, “and I’m concerned about whether they will be able to be completed in the next week.”

Last month, the House included the body camera, training and oversight provisions in a DHS funding measure.

Asked about what measures Collins would advocate for in a DHS funding bill, Collins spokesperson Blake Kernen referred a reporter to her support for last month’s House-passed bill.

U.S. Rep. Jared Golden, the 2nd District Democrat not running for reelection this year, was one of seven House Democrats to vote with Republicans on approving the funds. Golden said the money for cameras and training “will support responsible law enforcement and begin to restore trust.”

After a series of controversies, including the ICE operation in Maine that Collins said had ended Jan. 29 after just over a week and more than 200 arrests, Democrats began to take a harder line on ICE funding.

On Wednesday, Golden spokesperson Patrick White said the congressman wants several things on the table in ongoing negotiations, including pending legislation to protect “Dreamers,” or undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children; a “return to the historic norm of coordination between local police and federal immigration enforcement officers,” and a ban on federal agents using administrative warrants to enter homes.

King said Tuesday the Democratic demands on ICE “are not a radical wish list at all.” King’s position is noteworthy given he was one of only eight senators in the Democratic caucus to vote last fall to reopen the government after a shutdown driven by expiring health insurance subsidies.

He says the current stalemate is different because funding for other agencies and programs, such as food stamps, is not at risk this time.

“I cannot vote for another continuing resolution which would provide additional funds to ICE until these reforms are enacted,” King said. “That’s what I’ve told my colleagues on the Republican side, because I don’t want to be complicit in another killing in Minneapolis or anywhere else.”

U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-1st District, did not join Golden in voting for the Homeland Security funding last month. A progressive, she supports abolishing ICE. Short of that, Pingree said in a statement Wednesday that she supports the 10-point Democratic plan for reforms along with language from a bill she sponsored to block funding for ICE’s expanded surveillance tools and staffing.

“We cannot fund a department that is terrorizing communities, surveilling innocent people and operating outside the bounds of the law,” Pingree said.

In the meantime, acting ICE Director Todd Lyons was defiant while testifying Tuesday before the House Homeland Security Committee on his agency’s tactics. He declined to apologize for the deaths of the two citizens in Minnesota.

Lyons said agents made 379,000 arrests during the first year of the Trump administration and removed over 475,000 people from the country.

“We are only getting started,” he said.