Johnson To Advance New 60-Day DHS Funding Package But Schumer Says DOA

• House Speaker Mike Johnson agreed to put a short-term DHS funding package on the floor

• The resolution would fund all of DHS, including ICE and CBP

• It would replace the Senate-passed bill on the House floor

• Chuck Schumer says it’s ‘DOA’

Update (1340ET): After meeting with the Freedom Caucus, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has agreed to advance a 60-day continuing resolution (CR) to the House Floor, which would fund all of DHS – including ICE and CBP – in lieu of the narrower Senate-passed bill. This decision will extend the partial shutdown of DHS, which has already lasted more than five weeks, and force the Senate to return and vote on the revised House measure.

The shift reflects intense pressure from hardline conservatives who threatened to sink the Senate bill without major changes. The Freedom Caucus is demanding the inclusion of voter ID requirements, additional border patrol funding, and resources for child sex trafficking investigations within ICE. While Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris argued the delay would not affect airport operations and that the Senate could quickly approve the bill next week, Democrats have repeatedly opposed short-term clean extensions – and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has already declared the 60-day CR “dead on arrival” in the Senate, stating Democrats will not give what he called a “blank check to Trump’s lawless and deadly immigration militia without reforms.”

A 60 day CR that locks in the status quo is dead on arrival in the Senate, and Republicans know it.

We’ve been clear from day one: Democrats will fund critical Homeland Security functions—but we will not give a blank check to Trump’s lawless and deadly immigration militia… pic.twitter.com/WBivMRihcw

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) March 27, 2026

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, meanwhile, has indicated Republicans plan to address ICE and CBP funding later through budget reconciliation using only GOP votes. However, the core disagreements over these agencies have stalled negotiations for five weeks, and the House’s latest approach is unlikely to break the logjam. House GOP leaders are holding a conference call this afternoon to discuss the path forward, though it remains unclear whether they will attempt to pass the short-term funding bill today

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At 2:22 a.m. EST, the Senate unanimously passed a spending bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security after a 40-day shutdown that disrupted airport security and sparked travel chaos for millions of Americans.

The bill, which excludes funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, still needs House approval and President Trump’s signature. The overnight breakthrough came as airport TSA lines worsened nationwide this week, with TSA agents calling out sick or quitting due to missed paychecks.

BREAKING.

The Senate just passed funding for most of DHS for the rest of the fiscal year.

The bill funds all but ICE and *Border Patrol*

This was by unanimous voice vote. It now goes to the House, which is still in town and can vote later today.

The bill contains no…

— Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) March 27, 2026

Unpaid TSA agents have been calling out by the hundreds at major airports so far, including Atlanta, Baltimore, Houston, and New York, sparking long checkpoint lines. The funding lapse has led to 480 TSA workers resigning.

The breakthrough also came after President Trump added pressure on Thursday (read here), saying he would sign an order to fund TSA officers’ paychecks. 

“I am going to sign an Order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, to immediately pay our TSA Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation, and to quickly stop the Democrat Chaos at the Airports,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Thursday. 

President Trump pins blame on Democrats for DHS shutdown at cabinet meeting: “They need to end this shutdown immediately, or we’ll have to take some very drastic measures.” pic.twitter.com/Pt4pFK2wB0

— CSPAN (@cspan) March 26, 2026

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said, “Hopefully they’ll be around, and we can get at least a lot of the government opened up again, and then we’ll go from there.”

Thune blamed unhinged Democrats for the airport chaos: “President Trump should never have had to step in to rescue TSA workers and U.S. air travel. We are here because, thanks to Democrats’ determined refusal to reach an agreement, there will be no Homeland Security funding bill this year.” 

Democrats have widely objected to passing a DHS spending bill that includes funding for ICE and CBP. This is mostly because the president has used those federal agencies to deport illegal aliens, the very ones that Democrats let in through disastrous open borders to build a new voting bloc in their aspirations of a one-party rule nation, just like the insanity in California, Maryland, and other deeply blue states. 

Punchbowl News explained there were “no winners” in this six-week standoff.

“Who won the Senate standoff? No one, in truth. Nothing really changed. Both sides wanted to have this fight, so it happened. It was another example of how little moderation is left in the Trump era, where the first instinct is to go to war,” the outlet wrote in a morning note.

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