After weeks of delay, House lawmakers caved to the Senate and voted to fund Homeland Security (but not for ICE operations) ending the longest agency shutdown in history.
The White House had been waving flags that the temporary funding Trump found to pay TSA agents and other agency personnel would “soon run out,” which could have meant a return to chaos for travelers at airports.
BREAKING: House approves a bill to fund the Homeland Security Department, sending it to President Trump to sign.
— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) April 30, 2026 at 10:25 AM
From AP News:
In the aftermath of the fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both U.S. citizens, by federal agents during protests against the immigration actions in Minneapolis, Democrats refused to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol without changes to those operations.
At the same time, Republicans would not go along with a plan pushed by Democrats to fund TSA and the other parts of DHS without the money for ICE and Border Patrol.
After the shutdown intensified, with hourslong lines at airport security screening, the Senate unanimously approved the bipartisan package in a middle of the night vote a month ago. Then the bill languished in the House.
To break the impasse, Republican leaders in both the House and Senate decided to tackle the immigration enforcement funding on their own through what is called budget reconciliation, a cumbersome weekslong process ahead.
Last night, House Republicans passed a budget “resolution” that aims to eventually fund ICE and deportations with $70 billion for the rest of Trump’s time in the White House.
NEW: House Republicans just cleared a key first hurdle to move ICE and Border Patrol funding forward without Democratic votes.
The chamber passed a budget framework 215-211 along party lines, setting up the reconciliation process for a later bill that aims to provide about $70… pic.twitter.com/30pgS7Yow2
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 30, 2026
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