New Facts: House Republicans Reject Senate DHS Funding Deal
Late Friday, the House rejected the Senate’s pre-dawn plan to reopen the Department of Homeland Security and instead passed a 60-day stopgap that funds the entire department, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, through May 22. The vote was 213 to 203, with three Democrats joining Republicans.
Hours earlier, the Senate had unanimously approved a bill to reopen DHS while withholding money for ICE and much of Customs and Border Protection, then left for a two-week recess. Democrats in the Senate have ruled out taking up a stopgap that restores ICE funding, leaving the shutdown in place while both chambers are away.
President Donald Trump ordered TSA agents paid from existing funds, and DHS said paychecks could start as soon as Monday. TSA’s roughly 50,000 officers have missed two pay periods and more than 500 have quit, while many other DHS employees remain unpaid until Congress passes new funding.
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