[ April 18, 2026 ]
In the dead of night, the Senate passed a bill giving the Democrats everything they wanted. The Senate passed DHS funding with no funding for Border Security Operations and ICE. The House refused to accept that garbage.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) said, “The Senate bill is a non-starter. We’ll send something back to stand with CBP & ICE — perhaps other important provisions. But we’re not accepting the garbage from the Senate.
House Republicans are NOT going to be part of any effort to reopen our borders or stop immigration enforcement.
Chuck Schumer’s gambit last night is a joke.
We must fully fund Homeland Security and support our brave law enforcement heroes who keep Americans safe. pic.twitter.com/IQK6Yg0fJv
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) March 27, 2026
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🚨 BREAKING: House Republicans just passed a clean bill to FULLY FUND the Department of Homeland Security.
Democrats manufactured this shutdown from the start, leaving ICE and CBP officers without pay while they play political games with the lives of American families. We will… pic.twitter.com/OPt3NyV8kh
— Republican Study Committee (@RepublicanStudy) March 28, 2026
Rep. Roy: "It is absolutely offensive to the people that we represent that the Senate would send over a bill that doesn't fund Border Patrol and the core components of ICE.
Could the Senate be any more lazy than to send to us a bill that doesn't do the job and then leave town?… pic.twitter.com/LHf7KACbTq
— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) March 27, 2026
House Republicans just passed a clean, short-term funding extension to SUPPORT law enforcement, SECURE the border, PAY TSA employees, and FULLY FUND the Department of Homeland Security.
The Senate needs to pass this bill ASAP!
— Tom Emmer (@GOPMajorityWhip) March 28, 2026
Thune is a scumbag.
You had ONE job, you worthless hack. pic.twitter.com/dYeJgC6lim
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) March 27, 2026
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Looks like Leader John Thune is on his way out of town with his private escort, as the SAVE America Act gets left behind.
This is very disappointing.
I am willing to stay in Washington as long as it takes to get the job done. pic.twitter.com/NLg4xEJRdg
— Congressman Randy Fine (@RepFine) March 27, 2026
Thune didn’t do anyone any favors with this bill. The battle now turns to the Border Patrol and ICE. That’s the Democrats’s goal. So, they punished the TSA and now they’ll punish Border Patrol and ICE. In the end, the Democrats are blackmailing we, the American people.
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) March 27, 2026
WATCH: The moment Thune passed the DHS funding bill by unilaterally ending debate without cloture (60 votes).
This is the very thing he REFUSES to do with the SAVE America Act because that would be “nuking the filibuster.”
It’s Republicans that are sabotaging the MAGA agenda. pic.twitter.com/Zd8dhEoAS3
— Wall Street Mav (@WallStreetMav) March 27, 2026
The House wasn’t having it.
ouse Speaker Mike Johnson has flatly rejected the Senate’s bill to fund all parts of the Department of Homeland Security except for ICE, announcing that House Republicans passed a bill funding all of DHS.
In the middle of the night, the U.S. Senate decided:
❌ No paychecks for CBP non-law enforcement personnel
❌ No paychecks for ICE non-law enforcement personnel
❌ No funding for day-to-day operations of BOTH agencies
❌ Prohibit transferring funds to ANY Border Patrol…— Rep. Keith Self (@RepKeithSelf) March 27, 2026
BREAKING 🚨 The House just did THEIR job. They just passed a bill funding ALL of DHS including ICE
203 Democrats wanted TSA workers and THEIR families to go hungry without pay
John Thune is on Vacation pic.twitter.com/0PqpdX1ikC
— MAGA Voice (@MAGAVoice) March 28, 2026
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Rep Keith Self said, “Tonight, I voted YES to fully fund the entire Department of Homeland Security through May 22nd and end the Democrats’ radical shutdown.
The Senate’s bill was unconscionable. In the dead of night, they defunded Border Patrol and ICE — including the division that fights child sex trafficking — giving Democrats everything they wanted. That weak, pathetic surrender is unacceptable.
The entire row of security checks at Phoenix Sky Harbor is now staffed by ICE agents.
If you’re wondering who to thank for the suddenly shorter lines, look no further. ICE is getting it done. pic.twitter.com/VgnnmYh5KV
— Kim "Katie" USA (@KimKatieUSA) March 27, 2026
Republicans made a promise to the American people that we would secure our borders and enforce our immigration laws. House Republicans are keeping that promise by sending the Senate back a clean CR that actually funds our homeland security.
Senators need to get back”
The Senate bill is a non-starter. We’ll send something back to stand with @CBP & @ICEgov – perhaps other important provisions. But we’re not accepting the garbage from the Senate. pic.twitter.com/2upBegzJVy
— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) March 27, 2026
🚨 BREAKING: Speaker Johnson is being praised for doing the right thing after the House PASSES full DHS and ICE funding
203 Democrat traitors voted NAY
It now heads to the Senate
SEND IT TO TRUMP! No concessions to Schumer! 🔥
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 28, 2026
The House did it. Of course, over 200 House Democrats voted AGAINST securing the homeland.
Like a broken record, over 200 House Democrats voted AGAINST securing the homeland.
THIS DEMOCRAT SHUTDOWN MUST END! pic.twitter.com/8KANwHgVVh
— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) March 28, 2026
House Republicans pass rival DHS plan, setting up Senate fight as shutdown set to become longest in history
Speaker Mike Johnson says lawmakers will ‘figure this out’ in the next eight weeks as lawmakers set to leave Washington without dealBy Adam Pack, Fox News, March 27, 2026:
House Republicans passed a short-term funding patch for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over the fierce objections of Democratic lawmakers late Friday evening.
But the 42-day shutdown that has snarled air travel and left tens of thousands of federal employees without pay is far from over.
House lawmakers voted 213-203, largely along party lines, to approve a two-month funding extension for the beleaguered department, which has been operating without full-year appropriations since the funding lapse began on Feb. 14.
Reps. Don Davis, D-N.C., Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Wash., and Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, crossed party lines to support the measure. More than a dozen lawmakers did not vote.
mike johnson on capitol hill
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., successfully passed a two-month funding extension for the Department of Homeland Security, but the measure faces long odds of passing the Senate. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)The House-passed DHS measure faces an uphill battle in the Senate, where Democrats have filibustered GOP-authored legislation that includes immigration funding for the past six weeks.
Both chambers are scheduled to leave Washington for an Easter recess without ending the funding standoff, paving the way for the partial government shutdown to become the longest in history.
“In those eight weeks, we will figure this out with Democrats and figure out a couple of reforms or whatever they need to make sure that we do this right, but we are going to protect the homeland. We have to,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said on “The Ingraham Angle” on Friday evening. “It’s the most important and most basic function of Congress, and Democrats don’t want to do that.”
Democratic lawmakers, who have repeatedly voted against DHS spending bills funding President Donald Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown absent reforms, echoed the same position Friday.
“House Republicans have decided that they would rather inconvenience you, create chaos for you and for your families so that they can continue to jam their extreme right-wing ideology down the throats of the American people so they can continue to spend billions of dollars for ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] to brutalize and kill American citizens,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said during a news conference Friday.
The vote came after House GOP leadership and the conservative House Freedom Caucus unequivocally rejected a Senate-passed deal earlier on Friday. The agreement, which passed the Senate unanimously, would have funded the vast majority of DHS sub-agencies minus ICE and parts of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The National Border Patrol Council endorsed the House bill late Friday, arguing the Senate’s failure to fund all of DHS is “completely unacceptable and should not stand.”
Senate Republicans have teased a second “big, beautiful” bill to give additional funding to ICE and the Border Patrol, though that could be a difficult feat in an election year with slim majorities in both chambers.
“It wasn’t good. It wasn’t appropriate,” Trump told Fox News in an interview Friday, referring to the Senate agreement. “You can’t have a bill that’s not going to fund ICE.”
House GOP leadership has also voiced concern about funding ICE and the Border Patrol through a second budget reconciliation package.
“That’s a very difficult task. It is a high-risk gamble for us to assume that we could do that,” Johnson told “The Ingraham Angle.” “And in the meantime, people are still going unpaid in this. We’ve got to make sure that we take care of those who take care of ourselves.”
The most pressing pain point of the shutdown — a shortage of Transportation Security Administration employees at airports nationwide — is set to be alleviated. The staffing constraints had created hours-long wait times at TSA security checkpoints, leading to travel disruptions and missed flights.
Trump, through an executive order, directed DHS to pay the more than 50,000 TSA personnel who had been reporting to work without compensation since the start of the shutdown to cover their salaries. The agents are expected to receive their first full paychecks in more than six weeks on Monday.
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