House Republicans have teed up a vote Friday night on a stopgap bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at fiscal year 2025 levels for an additional eight weeks, after their stunning rebuke of a Senate-passed deal to fund most of the department.
The bill is expected to pass, assuming the GOP doesn’t face attendance issues, but the partial shutdown is still expected to drag on. The Senate left Washington for a two-week recess after passing its bill early Friday morning, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) deemed the stopgap bill “dead on arrival” in the upper chamber.
The Senate deal, which passed unanimously, would fund the bulk of DHS but does not include Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol. That exclusion won over Democrats but outraged House Republicans, who rejected it outright.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5802558-live-updates-trump-dhs-shutdown-tsa-iran/
DHS stopgap set for quick House action after Rules Committee vote
The House Rules Committee advanced a measure Friday evening that would fund the entirety of the Homeland Security Department through May 22 — without setting up debate or a separate vote on the funding bill itself.
The panel, after a raucous meeting that devolved into shouting at multiple points, voted 8-4 on party lines to advance the measure to the floor.
The rule includes a “deem and pass” provision, a tactic that allows legislation to be passed by the House automatically once the rule itself is adopted. While there will be one hour of floor debate and a vote on the rule, there will not be a standalone House vote on the DHS spending bill.
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/03/27/congress/dhs-stopgap-rules-committee-00849287