The Home voted Friday to approve a short-term invoice to fund all the Division of Homeland Safety for practically 60 days, sending the measure again to the Senate the place the highest Democrat says it’s “lifeless on arrival.”
The Home vote late Friday was 213-203. Three Democrats crossed social gathering traces to vote in favor: Reps. Henry Cuellar, of Texas; Don Davis, of North Carolina; and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, of Washington.
The continued Capitol Hill deadlock means the partial shutdown is anticipated to pull on as lawmakers combat over a path ahead.
The Home vote to increase funding for all of DHS by way of Could 22 got here a number of hours after the Senate authorized a invoice early Friday morning to fund most of DHS aside from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and components of Customs and Border Safety.
Home Speaker Mike Johnson speaks to the media on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 27, 2026.
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Forward of the Home vote, Democratic Minority Chief Chuck Schumer had vowed that it will be “lifeless on arrival” within the Senate, that means Democrats won’t present sufficient assist to achieve a 60-vote threshold.
Senators have left city for a two-week recess and usually are not planning to return till Monday, April 13. Home members are additionally leaving to depart for the two-week vacation break and usually are not planning to return till Tuesday, April 14.
Earlier Friday, Home Speaker Mike Johnson and GOP leaders rejected the Senate-passed DHS invoice.
“This gambit that was executed final evening is a joke,” Johnson instructed reporters in a information convention on Friday.
Amid the gridlock on Capitol Hill, President Donald Trump on Friday signed a presidential memorandum directing Homeland Safety Secretary Markwayne Mullin to pay TSA staff. DHS mentioned that employees will begin seeing paychecks on Monday.
President Trump, in a telephone interview with Fox Information on Friday afternoon, mentioned the Senate deal on DHS “wasn’t good” and “wasn’t acceptable.”
The Senate, at 2 a.m. on Friday morning, authorized a funding invoice that included TSA, Federal Emergency Administration Company, the Coast Guard and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company.
Vacationers wait in line to undergo safety in Terminal 5 at John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport, March 27, 2026 in New York Metropolis.
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The bundle didn’t embody cash for ICE or components of CBP, although these companies proceed to obtain funds as a consequence of an inflow of money supplied within the so-called One Huge Stunning Invoice handed by Congress final summer time.
Additionally absent from the Senate invoice are any of the reforms to ICE’s working procedures that Democrats have been repeatedly demanding following the deadly shootings of two Americans in Minneapolis by federal brokers earlier this yr.
Nonetheless, Schumer mentioned he was pleased with Democrats who “held the road” on their objection to funding ICE and CBP with out reforms.
“Democrats held agency in our place that Donald Trump’s rogue and lethal militia shouldn’t get extra funding with out critical reforms and we’ll proceed to combat for these reforms,” he mentioned.
The U.S. Capitol constructing is seen, March 27, 2026 in Washington.
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Senate Majority Chief John Thune lambasted Democrats on the ground for what he framed as their refusal to barter in good religion. He mentioned Democrats may have secured a few of their desired reforms in the event that they hadn’t difficult negotiations.
“We could possibly be standing right here proper now passing a funding invoice with a listing of reforms if the Democrats had made the smallest effort to really attain an settlement. However they did not, as a result of it is now clear to everybody, Democrats did not really desire a resolution, they needed a difficulty, politics over coverage, self-interest over reform, pandering to their base over really fixing an issue,” Thune mentioned.
Senate Republicans vowed to work on a bundle later this yr to approve much more funding for ICE and CBP, saying they intention to do it utilizing reconciliation — a finances device that, if profitable, would enable them to sidestep Democratic objection and cross the invoice with none Democratic assist.
Republicans are already warning that that invoice will likely be a a lot harsher and Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., vowed it will “supercharge deportations.”
ABC Information’ Allison Pecorin and Lalee Ibssa contributed to this report.
