Overview
- The House approved the Senate bill by voice vote Thursday, and Trump signed it hours later to end the 76-day partial DHS shutdown.
- The law funds TSA, the Coast Guard, FEMA, the Secret Service and CISA through September 30 but provides no new money for ICE or Border Patrol, whose core operations continued on prior appropriations.
- GOP leaders advanced a reconciliation plan that could direct roughly $70 billion to immigration enforcement, with committees drafting in May and a June 1 target set by the White House.
- The lapse strained DHS as more than 1,000 TSA officers quit, thousands worked without pay, and emergency payroll funds were close to running out, raising the risk of fresh airport delays.
- The standoff stemmed from Democratic demands for limits on ICE and Border Patrol tactics after fatal Minneapolis shootings, and Speaker Mike Johnson reversed course under White House and moderate GOP pressure to adopt a two-track approach.