Shutdown Infighting Shatters GOP Unity in Critical Stretch for Trump
Thune’s deal left Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection unfunded, and House Republicans rejected it as the shutdown reached 45 days, officials said.
- On Friday, the House rejected a Senate-brokered Department of Homeland Security funding bill, deepening tensions between Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson over how to end the ongoing government shutdown.
- Thune negotiated the Senate plan excluding funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection , intending to secure that money later through a party-line reconciliation bill.
- House Speaker Mike Johnson called the Senate compromise a "joke," and House Republicans swiftly passed an eight-week funding patch as a direct rebuke to the Senate measure.
- Both chambers have departed Washington for a two-week recess, leaving the Department of Homeland Security funding in stalemate with no clear path to resolution.
- Republicans are considering a party-line "megabill" to resolve the funding impasse, though internal party divisions and Democratic opposition complicate passage before the April 20 statutory deadline.
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