Overview
- - The White House budget office, which sent a memo Tuesday, said the temporary funds covering Transportation Security Administration and other Homeland Security pay will be depleted by early May and urged the House to pass the Senate’s partial funding bill.
- - DHS reports that more than 1,000 TSA officers have resigned since the mid-February shutdown began, and the agency says it needs four to six months to train replacements, weakening screening capacity before summer and the FIFA World Cup.
- - After airport lines stretched for hours in March when paychecks stopped, President Trump ordered DHS in late March to use existing funds to pay staff, and Secretary Markwayne Mullin now says those dollars cover only about one more payroll at roughly $1.6 billion every two weeks.
- - The Senate already approved a bipartisan bill to fund most DHS components except Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, but Speaker Mike Johnson says the House wants changes and his conference remains divided.
- - House Republicans are also advancing a separate plan to finance ICE and border patrol through a complex budget process that could take weeks, a delay that risks renewed checkpoint delays and cancellations as peak travel nears.