The Department of Homeland Security now has been funded by Congress, after Democrats forced a 75-day shutdown with their opposition to President Donald Trump’s plans to enforce the nation’s immigration and border laws.
But Immigration and Customs Enforcement hasn’t yet. Nor has the Border Patrol, giving the minority party a short-term win in their open borders/anti-Trump plans.
BREAKING: The House just passed the Senate DHS funding bill (funds all of DHS except ICE & CBP) via voice vote. There was no roll call vote requested. It now goes to President Trump’s desk for signature. Democrats had been demanding this for weeks.
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CBS reported the House unanimously adopted a Senate-approved plan to fund DHS.
There was little fanfare as the House vote sent the measure to Trump’s desk for signing.
DHS had been closed since Feb. 14, giving the Democrats success with the longest partial government closure in national history.
Multiple plans have failed since then, and finally House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Trump came together to support funding part of DHS with the current bill, then running the funding for ICE and Border Patrol through a reconciliation, which will bypass Democrats entirely.
Trump already had told DHS to redirect money to pay employees in March, but DHS chief Markwayne Mullin said even through would have run out early in May.
The reconciliation package already is under way.
The agencies have operated mostly without obstacles in the interim, as tens of billions of dollars were granted in last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
The agencies that suffered from the Democrat agenda included the Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration and Federal Emergency Management Agency.
