No agreement on DHS funding before Congress starts two-week spring break
發佈日期: 2026-03-29 21:39
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For several hours early Friday, the US Senate appeared to have finally figured out how to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security before it faced the longest partial shutdown in history.
Senators handed House Speaker Mike Johnson their deal and headed for the airport confident of success. Then it collapsed. Spectacularly.
Instead on Friday night the House passed a bill to fund the entire department through to May 22.
Deputy speaker Scott Desjarlais announces: "On this vote, the ayes are 213 and the nays 203. The resolution is adopted without objection. The motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. Pursuant to the adoption of House resolution 1142 the Senate amendment to HR 7147 is considered as agreed to with an amendment consisting of the text of the Rules Committee. Print one 19-21."
Johnson said he had spoken with Trump about the House Republican plan and the president supported it.
House Republicans were livid that the bill passed by the Senate does not fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.
Democrats refused to fund those departments without changes to immigration enforcement practices.
The collapse of the deal leaves Congress now on a two-week spring break, with no easy way out of the impasse that has put DHS into a shutdown since mid-February. It has also exposed a rare rupture between the two Republican leaders in Congress, testing their alliances as they labour to move another set of President Donald Trump's priorities into law before the November elections.
