House Republicans are refusing to vote on a Senate-approved deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security that won’t include funding for immigration enforcement and deportation operations amid an ongoing partial shutdown on Friday (March 27), NBC News reports.
Speaker Mike Johnson confirmed he will hold a House vote on a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security on a temporary 60-day basis and deemed the earlier bill as “a joke,” placing full blame for the partial government shutdown on the Democrats despite it passing with unanimous consent through the Republican-led Senate hours earlier.
“They have taken hostage the funding processes of government so that they can impose their radical agenda on the American people,” Johnsons said via NBC News.
The Senate package was approved at 2:20 a.m. ET during a voice vote that followed a marathon session, as well as President Donald Trump announced he’ll sign an executive order telling new Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin to restart pay for Transportation Security Administration officers amid the ongoing partial shutdown in a post shared on his Truth Social account Thursday (March 26). TSA agents have gone 42 days without a full paycheck, which has resulted in a record number of call outs and wait times at major U.S. airports.
The new legislation reportedly aimed to fund all of the Department of Homeland Security excluding U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Removal Operations, as well as parts of Customs and Border Protection, which has been a key demand by the Democrats during the voting process.
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