https://www.npr.org/2026/03/27/g-s1-115366/senate-dhs-tsa-dealThe Senate voted overnight to fund large swaths of the Department of Homeland Security after a 42-day standoff over immigration enforcement tactics. The bill does not include funding for the agency's main immigration enforcement operations.The legislation now goes to the House for a vote.The DHS funding lapse forced tens of thousands of employees to work without pay - or quit– and resulted in long waits at some airports amid peak spring break travel.Democrats have refused to support funding for DHS over objections to immigration enforcement tactics used by the agency's officers. Democrats insisted on reforms to the agency after federal officers killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis.The latest package allowed Democrats to fund operations like the Transportation Safety Administration, or TSA, and emergency response divisions, without backing down from those demands.
But some Democrats have warned that any agreement diminishes their leverage.The department has been operating without regular appropriations for more than a month. But some divisions, like Immigration and Customs Enforcement, have continued to function thanks to about $75 billion provided by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Others, including TSA, have relied workers who are going without pay.Ha Nguyen McNeil, the TSA acting administrator, told lawmakers at a hearing on Wednesday that absences are as high as 40 percent in some airports and more than 480 TSA officers have quit during the shutdown."We are really concerned about our security posture and what the long term impacts of this shutdown is going to have on the workforce and our ability to carry out this mission," McNeil said.House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters earlier in the day on Thursday that House Republicans have not been in favor of breaking up the funding, calling it "shameful" to fail to fund the agency.It is unclear how the House will respond to the agreement.
>>1500829Reminder that Republicans were bragging that ICE still had funding because of the Big Bill, yet were so pissed about the idea of them not also receiving a bit of extra funding they were willing to slow down the entire airline industry over it.
They have to fund this otherwise ICE will be put in to takeover all roles within the DHS
>>1500837The way Mike Johnson is talking about it means the bill probably won't pass the House as it stands now. They will have to revise it and vote on it and if it passes send it back to the Senate for a revote. That's going to take at least a week if not longer.
Yeah but does this mean they passed the SAVE ACT? Trump said he wouldn't sign anything without it. Huh???!?!?!? DID THEY?!?!!?!?
>>1500846Who cares, Congress can override his veto if the choose to.
>>1500844The World Cup will start in June, basically in 2 months there’s going to be an absolute shitshow over there with an extra 1.2million tourists, ICE agents checking passports and doing the air traffic control
