>> There's a lot at stake before Congress members leave town at the end of the week for Easter and Passover break the partial government shutdown over funding for the Department of Homeland Security wades into its 6th week as TSA employees work without pay, resulting in long lines at major airports.

Meanwhile, senators continue to debate the save America at the Trump backed measure that requires voters to show proof of citizenship at registration.

So joining us now from Washington, D.C., is Lisa Desjardins, a correspondent for PBS NewsHour.

Lisa, thank you for joining us.

>> My pleasure.

>> So we'll get to the save more deeply in a second.

But it is particularly it's on the back burner right now as lawmakers are trying to pass the new homeland security budget.

We know that DHS has been shut down since February 13th leading TSA agents without pay many of the country's airports in disarray.

How are negotiations going for DHS right now?

>> Right now we're at a technical stand still.

And I think from the outside probably looks back looks like how are they going to get a deal done?

But I will tell you from having covered a lot of the shutdowns that there is a tremendous amount of pressure, especially on the U.S.

Senate, the at those TSA lines where they're happening or people are thinking about their travel or senators themselves who want to leave town.

I think that there is a good chance they figure something out in the next couple of days.

It really is hard to see them leaving town with the shutdown continuing.

But how they figure it to quote, Shakespeare in love.

It's a mystery, we >> Yeah, I'd be curious to see many of them fly commercial rights.

I'd be curious to see what the airport experience like for some of them.

If that should happen the save act, though it is particularly divisive among lawmakers with Republicans claiming that its common sense legislation while Democrats call it voter suppression.

Here's what to lawmakers had to say that at this week.

>> Polls show that the common sense policies in the Save America Act have support from the American people.

But Democrats.

Have repeatedly demonstrated they don't share the American people's interest in securing our elections.

This legislation, the so-called save act, has nothing to do.

With ensuring.

Elections are conducted with integrity.

This is all about trying to prevent midterm massacre.

At the polls.

>> Lisa, remind us how we got here.

Why was this bill introduced?

>> We're a few layers to but their leader Jeffries is a grant in that President Trump has said that he does think the passage of this act would affect the midterms.

He just sees it from the reverse, a viewpoint.

Republicans believe that some of those changes made during the pandemic.

2 voting, many of which had to do with the fact that people were isolated, that we had social distancing those benefited unfairly.

Democrat.

So part of this is that same conversation.

The other part is an idea that President Trump has put out there falsely ridges that the 2020 election was stolen, including by things like mail-in vote fraud.

We know that there is little evidence of any widespread fraud in American voting.

And in fact, last election was declared to be the one with the least amount across measures of any, however, this is part of how President Trump has pushed his own past and the 2020 election south.

What we have now is an act that deals not just with requirements to register for a vote but requirements to vote at the polls.

And also whether mail-in voting should be allowed.

Now those issues all cricket different ways across American society.

idea of being required to present ID at the polls is generally very popular.

But the details matter and then those other 2 provisions on citizenship and on mail-in vote.

People feel differently about those.

>> It Lisa, we have a local political reporter here who says about City Hall.

When you have the votes, you vote, they've been debating this.

Does the Senate GOP today have the votes for this?

>> We do not have the votes for this.

It takes 60 votes usually to get past cloture on the save act.

They're nowhere near They have 53 Republicans, but we know that there are Republicans at least 2 who opposes one of them is the Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski.

She says this would just make a mess of elections in our state.

We have a rural state.

People would not be able to get the documents they need easily.

Mail-in vote is critical in our state.

We think this would prohibit it too much.

And some of the senators also say this particular version of this bill would go into effect immediately.

They just don't think they're states are ready for war that has been thought out enough.

Others disagree, of course.

But this is all to say Republicans, in fact, do not have the votes are a couple seconds left.

Lisa, if passed, if implemented, would documents would be suitable for voters to present.

>> It depends for citizenship.

Be would need an original birth certificate passport, some forms of military ID or you could sign an affidavit.

>> For voter ID, that also is in question.

But most realign tease would pass and he's a pretty issued to.

Each state, has different requirements.

Now.

And there there are a lot question marks about exactly