{"id":181600,"date":"2026-04-01T00:33:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/181600\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T00:33:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:33:43","slug":"trump-considers-ending-congresss-two-week-recess-for-a-rare-special-session-to-end-dhs-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/181600\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump considers ending Congress&#8217;s two-week recess for a rare special session to end DHS shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump told The Post that he\u2019s considering forcing Congress to return for a rare special session to resolve the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/31\/us-news\/airport-bottlenecks-ease-as-tsa-workers-get-paid-but-shutdown-continues\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">45-day funding lapse for the Department of Homeland Security<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s something that\u2019s under consideration,\u201d Trump told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>Congress currently is on recess until April 14 \u2014 a date that would mark two full months of DHS workers going without pay.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that such a decision is unlikely to come before Easter on April 5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe we\u2019ll let them have Easter,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38948243\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/president-donald-trump-speaker-house-123851136.jpg\" alt=\"President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson walking through a hall with a bagpiper.\" class=\"wp-image-38948243\"  \/> Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>It would be the first special session since 1948, when President Harry Truman forced Republicans to return to debate health care, civil rights and Social Security legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Trump this week restored pay for Transportation Security Administration workers via executive order, though it\u2019s unclear how sustainable that workaround is to resolve travel chaos that saw passengers across the country waiting in line at checkpoints for several hours or more.<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a Monday briefing that \u201cnothing will be truly normal again until Democrats do the right thing to fund this agency fully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DHS includes a broad spectrum of sub-agencies including the Federal Emergency Management Agency, US Customs and Border Protection and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The shutdown began with Senate Democrats demanding changes to Trump\u2019s campaign to mass-deport illegal immigrants. Republicans have since opposed measures to fund only part of the department while setting aside immigration enforcement for further debate.<\/p>\n<p>Presidents have used their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/file\/147601-0\/dl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">constitutional power<\/a> to force a special session<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/07\/26\/truman-convenes-a-special-session-of-congress-july-26-1948-240861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"> just 27 times<\/a>. Before Truman, the most recent instance was in 1856 before the Civil War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 President Trump told The Post that he\u2019s considering forcing Congress to return for a rare special&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[858,153,2564,9,11,10,87,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-181600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-congress","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-government-shutdown","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}