{"id":550608,"date":"2026-03-28T14:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/550608\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T14:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:59:08","slug":"us-house-passes-stopgap-dhs-funding-bill-after-republicans-reject-senate-deal-us-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/550608\/","title":{"rendered":"US House passes stopgap DHS funding bill after Republicans reject Senate deal | US politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

US House Republicans<\/a> rejected a bipartisan Senate deal to temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and instead passed their own funding measure late on Friday, extending a weeks-long budget standoff that has disrupted air travel.<\/p>\n

The stopgap bill, which proposes funding the DHS in full for eight weeks, passed by 213 to 203 votes after Republicans in the lower chamber refused to take up a Senate-passed deal that excluded money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the border patrol.<\/p>\n

It essentially prolongs a standoff that has forced thousands of airport security staff to work without pay, even as the White House said Donald Trump ordered that the personnel finally be compensated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a statement, the Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, said a funding measure \u201cthat locks in the status quo is dead on arrival in the Senate, and Republicans know it\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cDemocrats will fund critical homeland security functions \u2013 but we will not give a blank check to Trump\u2019s lawless and deadly immigration militia without reforms.\u201d<\/p>\n

The late-night vote came after the House speaker, Mike Johnson, called the earlier bipartisan Senate bill a \u201cjoke\u201d for withholding money for the agencies responsible for carrying out Trump\u2019s controversial deportation crackdown.<\/p>\n

House Republicans instead introduced competing legislation that would fully fund Transportation Security Administration (TSA) staff, as well as immigration agents and border patrol personnel.<\/p>\n

Both chambers must pass the same version of a bill before it can go to the president\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n

With the lapse in federal funding \u2013 and weeks of chaos at American airports \u2013 expected to be extended, the White House said Trump signed a memorandum on Friday ordering his administration to resolve the \u201cunprecedented emergency situation\u201d and find the funds necessary to pay TSA salaries.<\/p>\n

Before the House approved the funding bill, the DHS \u2013 which oversees multiple agencies including the TSA \u2013 posted on X that \u201cTSA officers should begin seeing paychecks as early as Monday, March 30\u201d.<\/p>\n

A partial government shutdown has left TSA staff \u2013 who screen passengers, baggage and cargo \u2013 without pay since mid-February.<\/p>\n

The stalemate has led to crushing delays. At Houston\u2019s international airport, security lines stretched far into the distance and airport staff handed out bottles of water, an Agence France-Presse reporter saw on Friday.<\/p>\n

The funding dispute centers on demands by Democrats for reforms to ICE, an agency facing nationwide criticism for its aggressive tactics.<\/p>\n

Senators had voted early on Friday to fund the DHS, except for ICE and the border patrol, for 2026.<\/p>\n

That bill would have provided funding for the TSA, the US Coast Guard and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, among other operations. It did not include Democrats\u2019 proposed reforms.<\/p>\n

The lack of ICE or border patrol funding would not have barred those agencies from conducting their operations because the Republican-controlled Congress directed substantial extra funding to both agencies in 2025.<\/p>\n

Johnson said Republicans would not go along with the Senate\u2019s effort, criticising it for being too close to the Democratic position.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis gambit that was done last night is a joke,\u201d Johnson told reporters, complaining that the Senate bill, which passed unanimously, left US borders unsecured.<\/p>\n

The top House Republican and Trump ally said he spoke to the president, who \u201cunderstands exactly what we\u2019re doing and why, and he supports it\u201d.<\/p>\n

The passing of the bill comes before the Senate embarks on a two-week break, with the House beginning its own on Friday, potentially meaning more dragged-out pain for air travelers and TSA workers.<\/p>\n

Trump previously said he would not sign a funding deal unless Congress also passed a contentious bill to overhaul how citizens register to vote in US elections.<\/p>\n

Republicans hold a majority in both congressional chambers, but due to Senate rules, a certain number of Democratic votes would be required to pass budget bills.<\/p>\n

The top House Democrat, Hakeem Jeffries, said his party was seeking to force a House vote on the Senate\u2019s bipartisan measure.<\/p>\n

The political fight has strained TSA services. Nearly 500 transportation security officers have quit, according to the White House, and unscheduled absences have surged since the partial shutdown began.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US House Republicans rejected a bipartisan Senate deal to temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-550608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}