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Travelers stand in a long line at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Monday, March 23, 2026, the same day federal immigration officials started assisting with airport security. (Photo by Ross Williams\/Georgia Recorder)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The two chambers of Congress, both controlled by Republicans, were at odds Friday over how to fund the Department of Homeland Security, prolonging the shutdown that began in mid-February.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Senate voted before dawn to approve a funding bill that would have reopened every agency within the department impacted by the funding lapse. But that legislation didn\u2019t include additional money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement or Border Patrol.<\/p>\n

House GOP leaders, infuriated by their colleagues\u2019 decision to leave out that money, didn\u2019t put it on the floor for a vote. They chose instead to take up an eight-week stopgap spending bill for the department, which has little chance of moving through the Senate.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0House bill<\/a> passed on a\u00a0213-203<\/a> mostly party-line\u00a0vote. Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar, North Carolina Rep. Donald Davis and Washington Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, all Democrats, voted with all Republicans present. The\u00a0Senate bill<\/a> passed by voice vote, with Democratic support. Both chambers are now out of session for a two-week spring break.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The development reduces hope for the tens of thousands of federal workers within DHS who have gone without a full paycheck since the stalemate began when Senate Democrats demanded new constraints on immigration enforcement after federal officers shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as Customs and Border Protection have been largely exempt from the impacts of a shutdown since Republicans\u00a0approved tens of billions<\/a> for their operations in their \u201cbig, beautiful\u201d law. But federal workers throughout other DHS agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Secret Service and Transportation Security Administration, haven\u2019t been in the same situation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., announced in the afternoon the House would not even consider the Senate-passed funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, and would instead vote on a temporary measure that would run through May 22.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to send that over to the Senate and we hope that they\u2019ll accept that,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump hasn\u2019t weighed in publicly on whether he would sign either of the bills, if they ever reach his desk, and the White House did not respond to a request for comment. But Johnson said Trump backs House Republicans over the Senate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke to the president a few moments ago,\u201d he said. \u201cHe understands exactly what we\u2019re doing and why, and he supports it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump signed an order Friday that would provide pay for TSA workers, which a senior administration official said would come from Republicans\u2019 signature tax and spending bill. A DHS spokesperson, in an email, said that TSA workers should see paychecks as early as Monday.<\/p>\n

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., wrote in a social media post that any stopgap bill to fund DHS \u201cthat locks in the status quo is dead on arrival in the Senate, and Republicans know it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been clear from day one: Democrats will fund critical Homeland Security functions\u2014but we will not give a blank check to Trump\u2019s lawless and deadly immigration militia without reforms,\u201d Schumer wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Overnight Senate vote<\/h4>\n

The Senate approved a modified DHS spending bill by voice vote around 2:30 a.m. Eastern after a week of mounting pressure on lawmakers to end the stalemate that has led to hourslong wait times in airport security lines.<\/p>\n

The Senate-passed DHS bill didn\u2019t include funding for ICE or Border Patrol. GOP lawmakers signaled ahead of the vote they\u2019ll try to pass another boost in funding for immigration enforcement and deportation in a second party-line package later this year.<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said during brief floor debate that funding DHS through a \u201cpiecemeal\u201d approach wouldn\u2019t have happened if Democrats handled negotiations differently.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey wanted reforms to Immigration and Custom Enforcement, and Republicans offered to give that to them,\u201d he said. \u201cThe White House made offer after offer putting forward a robust list of additional reforms. And Democrats just kept moving the goal posts, and today they just walked away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats, he said, \u201cmight think twice before\u201d before they tried to use this as a campaign issue during November\u2019s\u00a0midterm elections<\/a>, when voters throughout the country will decide whether Republicans keep both chambers of Congress.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could be standing here right now passing a funding bill with a list of reforms, if Democrats had made the smallest effort to actually reach an agreement, but they didn\u2019t, because it\u2019s now clear to everyone, Democrats didn\u2019t actually want a solution,\u201d he said. \u201cThey wanted an issue, politics over policy, self-interest over reform, pandering to their base over actually solving a problem.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Schumer said the bill to fund most of DHS \u201ccould have been accomplished weeks ago if Republicans hadn\u2019t stood in the way.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrats held firm in our opposition that Donald Trump\u2019s rogue and deadly militia should not get more funding without serious reforms, and we will continue to fight for those reforms,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

More money for immigration deportations pledged<\/h4>\n

Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt said he and other Republican lawmakers would seek to bolster funding for immigration and deportations through budget reconciliation,\u00a0the complex process<\/a> the party used last year to approve its \u201cbig, beautiful\u201d law.<\/p>\n

That, he said, would allow Republicans to move funding through the Senate with just a simple majority vote, skipping the procedural steps that would otherwise require 60 senators to end debate on a bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTo my Democrat colleagues, this bill is the moderate option. What\u2019s coming next is going to supercharge deportations,\u201d he said. \u201cTo my Republican colleagues, let this be a rallying cry every time the Democrats obstruct the safety of American families, the wall gets 10 feet higher and ICE gets another $100 billion.\u201d<\/p>\n

New Jersey Sen. Andy Kim said Democrats have been clear for months they would \u201cnot support providing more funding for ICE without also including common sense reforms to rein in the abuses we have seen in Minnesota and elsewhere, particularly after two Americans were shot and killed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAll we\u2019ve been demanding here is what the American people are demanding \u2014 body-worn cameras; no masks; keeping ICE agents out of our hospitals, schools and churches; and ensuring ICE follows the same practices and procedures as local law enforcement,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Republicans have relented\u2019<\/h4>\n

Senate Appropriations Chairwoman Susan Collins, R-Maine, wrote in a statement that earlier negotiations included \u201cproposals to expand the use of body-worn cameras; limit civil immigration enforcement in sensitive areas such as schools and hospitals; increase oversight of detention facilities; and implement visible officer identification.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile Republicans worked in good faith to try to reach agreement, Democrats remained intransigent and unreasonable with their list of demands,\u201d she wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Senate Appropriations Committee ranking member Patty Murray, D-Wash., wrote in a statement that since \u201cRepublicans have relented\u201d lawmakers were \u201con track to fund the areas we agree on and get TSA agents paid, get our airports moving again, and fund important disaster relief and cybersecurity work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it is a shame that instead of working with Democrats to land the plane on several common-sense reforms to ICE and Border Patrol that the White House had already agreed to, Republicans walked away from constructive conversations and ultimately rejected some basic steps to reform these agencies,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI will keep fighting to secure real, meaningful steps to help rein in these rogue agencies\u2014we just need Republicans to join us.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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