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House Republicans poised to reject Senate-passed DHS funding bill, likely extending standoff
House conservatives reject Senate bill funding most DHS agencies but excluding ICE and Border Patrol, risking prolonged shutdown and worsening airport staffing shortages with 11% TSA callouts.
- On Friday, March 27, 2026, House Republicans rejected a Senate-passed bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, citing its exclusion of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol. Speaker Mike Johnson proposed an eight-week continuing resolution to fully fund DHS through May 22.
- Early Friday, the Senate unanimously passed a funding measure to end the 42-day DHS shutdown, but excluded ICE and parts of Border Patrol. This left more than 60,000 employees without pay and created severe staffing shortages at airports nationwide.
- Callout rates exceeded 40% at multiple airports, and nearly 500 TSA officers quit during the shutdown. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday directing DHS to immediately pay TSA employees using funds from his 2025 tax bill.
- House conservatives, including Rep. Chip Roy, called the Senate proposal "garbage" and a "non-starter," while many senators left Washington for a two-week recess. Johnson confirmed the House will vote on his stopgap measure "as soon as possible."
- Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer vowed that any legislation lacking immigration enforcement reforms is "dead on arrival" in the Senate. If Congress fails to reach an agreement by Saturday, the DHS shutdown will break the record for the longest government closure in American history.
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The Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives advanced a provisional measure this Friday to finance the Department of Homeland Security for 60 days, rejecting the bill that the Senate had passed to reopen the entity in the face of a crisis in the country’s airports in the absence of security personnel. The decision of the Lower House was announced by the president of the entity, Mike Johnson, at a press conference where he called as “a jo…
House Rejects Senate Bill to Fund DHS Without ICE
House Republicans rejected Friday a Senate-passed plan to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, dimming hopes for a quick resolution and extending a funding standoff that began in mid-February. The Senate passed the bill earlier Friday, funding DHS through the fiscal year while excluding Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol. But Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said the House would not take it up, calling the bill inadequ…
Rep. Olszewski blames House GOP as Rep. Harris slams Senate DHS shutdown bill
House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected the Senate-passed plan to end the partial federal government shutdown impacting the Department of Homeland Security, calling it incomplete. Maryland Republican Rep. Andy Harris, who chairs the House Freedom Caucus, criticized the Senate bill. “We can’t believe the Senate abdicated its responsibility this morning of not funding child sex trafficking investigation division of ICE. They didn’t fund Border Patrol,…
Hostage Tensions And "Slush Funds": The High-Stakes Blame Game Behind The DHS Shutdown - Tampa Free Press
The partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security has entered its second month, leaving Transportation Security Administration employees without paychecks as House and Senate leaders remain deadlocked over the future of federal immigration enforcement. On Friday, the debate reached a boiling point during an interview on CNN’s “The Lead,” where guest host Phil […] Hostage Tensions And “Slush Funds”: The High-Stakes Blame Game…
Effort to restore Homeland Security funding founders in Congress
Congress tried but failed on Friday to overcome a six-week funding standoff that has snarled airports and stopped paychecks for tens of thousands of federal workers, raising concerns of further travel disruptions during the busy spring-break season.
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