Overview
- The House approved the Senate’s DHS bill by voice vote Thursday, and President Trump signed it hours later to end the department’s record 76-day partial shutdown.
- The new law restores funding through September 30 for TSA, the Coast Guard, FEMA, the Secret Service, and CISA, while excluding Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol.
- Republican leaders have opened a budget reconciliation process to finance immigration enforcement with a simple Senate majority, targeting roughly $70 billion and a June 1 deadline set by Trump.
- Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin warned payroll money would run out in May, with salaries costing about $1.6 billion every two weeks, and more than 1,000 TSA officers quit during the lapse.
- Democrats blocked new ICE and Border Patrol money after fatal federal-agent shootings in Minneapolis triggered demands for guardrails, and Speaker Mike Johnson reversed course after weeks of GOP infighting once a separate path for enforcement funding was secured.