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People wait in long security lines at LaGuardia Airport on March 25, 2026 in the Queens borough of New York City. Travel disruptions continue as hundreds of TSA agents have quit or are working without pay during a partial government shutdown. (Photo by Spencer Platt\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 U.S. senators showed no movement Wednesday toward a deal to end the shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security, despite the problems it\u2019s causing for the thousands of federal workers set to miss yet another paycheck and travelers waiting hours to get through airport security lines.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said an offer from Democrats, sent over in the morning, was completely unacceptable and that GOP lawmakers wouldn\u2019t even bother to send back a counterproposal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey know better. They\u2019re asking for things that have already been turned down,\u201d he said. \u201cSo it just seems like they\u2019re going in circles.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thune said the chamber would vote later on a funding bill for DHS that doesn\u2019t include Enforcement and Removal Operations at Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the deportation and detention arm of the agency.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey said over the weekend that they didn\u2019t want to fund ERO. They\u2019ll fund everything else,\u201d he said. \u201cSo we\u2019re going to give an opportunity to vote to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thune said Republicans\u2019 decision to remove funding for those deportation programs represents a \u201csignificant\u201d compromise that shows GOP lawmakers are \u201ccoming to the table and trying to get a deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said the offer Democrats sent over represented \u201ca reasonable, good-faith proposal that contains some of the very same asks Democrats have been talking about now for months.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schumer said a proposal Republicans sent earlier this week didn\u2019t include any of the overhauls to immigration enforcement that Democrats have been\u00a0talking about<\/a> since January, when federal officers killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFor Republicans to send us a proposal that has no reforms is bad faith as well and will only slow things down,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Trump \u2018pretty much not happy\u2019 with \u2018any deal\u2019<\/h4>\n

President Donald Trump remains a wild card in the negotiations. His support will be needed for any DHS funding bill to become law, regardless of how much longer it takes lawmakers to reach consensus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I don\u2019t want to comment until I see the deal,\u201d he said Tuesday when asked about ongoing DHS talks. \u201cBut as you know, they\u2019re negotiating a deal. I guess they\u2019re getting fairly close. But I think any deal they make, I\u2019m pretty much not happy with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., when asked about those comments during a Wednesday morning press conference, appeared skeptical of breaking off some line items in the DHS funding bill.<\/p>\n

Any legislation to end the shutdown that passes the Senate will need to move through the House before it could reach Trump\u2019s desk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe always have Homeland funded as an entire department. There\u2019s obvious reasons for that. It\u2019s very important. I don\u2019t think we need to be breaking it apart,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd so I think that\u2019s what the president is reflecting there. He wants Congress to do its dang job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will Congress leave town without an agreement?<\/h4>\n

It isn\u2019t clear whether the Senate will still depart for its two-week spring break without a bipartisan agreement to fund DHS, which has been shut down since Feb. 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Legislation cannot advance in that chamber without the support of at least 60 senators, making buy-in from each party essential to end the shutdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thune said he hadn\u2019t made a final decision but seemed likely to let lawmakers head back home for the scheduled recess absent progress toward a deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we\u2019re not here, and when the Democrats are willing to make a deal, we\u2019d certainly get everybody back to vote on it,\u201d he said. \u201cBut no decisions on that yet. So hopefully the next couple days will be productive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Until a deal is reached, the DHS funding lapse will continue to affect workers and programs run by many of the agencies within the department, including the Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Secret Service and Transportation Security Administration.<\/p>\n

ICE and Customs and Border Protection operations have largely continued uninterrupted since Republicans approved tens of billions in\u00a0additional funding<\/a> for those agencies in their \u201cbig, beautiful\u201d law.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018We\u2019ve got a lot of plate spinning\u2019<\/h4>\n

Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford said lawmakers need to find some sort of solution to fund DHS following weeks of stalemate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, we got to get them open,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd the frustration that we have is we literally offered what they asked for three days ago, and then suddenly it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh no, no, we got new stuff.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Lankford said he doesn\u2019t want to see senators leave for the recess without a deal to reopen DHS.\u00a0<\/p>\n

North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis said lawmakers should stick around Capitol Hill until they solve at least some of the several outstanding issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got a lot of plate spinning. And I\u2019m afraid if we leave until we get some certainty around them, a few of them are going to fall to the floor and people are going to be wondering what\u2019s going on,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy, the top Democrat on the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, said the way the Trump administration has approached immigration enforcement and deportation has led to the problems over DHS funding.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a constitutional responsibility to fund only a government that obeys the law,\u201d he said. \u201cI would be violating my oath of office to fund ICE without reforms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moreno and Merkley face off<\/h4>\n

Ohio Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno went to the floor in the evening to ask unanimous consent to approve a bill that would fund every component of DHS for two weeks, providing back pay to all of its employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moreno said that would give senators enough time to work out a bipartisan deal on the full-year DHS spending bill if they canceled the recess and stayed around to work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oregon Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley proposed that lawmakers instead fund TSA through the end of September, when the current fiscal year ends.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moreno then asked Merkley to change that request to fund every agency within DHS except for Enforcement and Removal Operations for the rest of the fiscal year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Merkley then said he would agree to fund every agency within DHS except ICE and CBP.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe keeps asking for Customs and Border Protection to be funded without modifying how they\u2019re behaving across the nation,\u201d Merkley said. \u201cHe keeps asking for ICE to be funded without modifying their actions where they\u2019re acting like a secret police.\u201d<\/p>\n

The senators were unable to come to an agreement to approve funding for any of the agencies at DHS for any length of time during a nearly hour-long exchange that became tense at several points.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Moreno said the impasse represented \u201ca sad day for the United States Senate.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ariana Figueroa contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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