US EditionJohnson, Thune announce plan to end DHS shutdown 'in the coming days'
The plan would reopen most of DHS now and use reconciliation later to fund ICE and Border Patrol without Democratic votes.
- On Wednesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced a two-track strategy to fund the Department of Homeland Security and end the record 47-day partial government shutdown.
- The shutdown, which began February 14, left TSA and FEMA without funding, causing severe airport delays. President Donald Trump directed GOP leaders to pursue the two-track plan, demanding legislation by June 1.
- Budget reconciliation will provide three years of funding for ICE and Border Patrol, bypassing the Senate filibuster, while Congress passes an appropriations bill for most other Department of Homeland Security agencies.
- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer criticized the plan, saying "Republican divisions derailed a bipartisan agreement," while lawmakers face uncertainty regarding passage timelines during the current two-week congressional recess.
- The strategy aims to secure immigration enforcement funding through the remainder of Trump's term, though the approach remains vulnerable to political opposition and procedural complexity in coming months.
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Congressional Republican leaders closed a pact that would allow the department to be refinanced, although immigration police will have to subsist with funds approved last year.
Congress to pass bills to fully fund Homeland Security, Republican leaders say
WASHINGTON — Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday said they will take a two-pronged approach to ending the legislative deadlock over Department of Homeland Security funding by passing a bill soon to end the partial agency shutdown and attempting to follow up with another bill providing money for the remainder of the Trump administration.
Exclusive: Congress eyes DHS shutdown endgame
The Senate is likely to take the first step to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown Thursday morning. Senate Republicans plan to try to pass virtually the same bill the chamber approved last week before it hit a wall in the House, according to a source familiar with the situation. That bill funds most of DHS except immigration enforcement, which GOP leaders announced would be part of a party-line bill. Democrats are already spinning …
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