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NYTimes: Senate and House Republicans revived a deal that Trump and the House G.O.P. rejected last week—— Posted on April 1, 2026 at 06:44:11 PM by stormhit
Senate and House Republican leaders announced on Wednesday an agreement to move forward with legislation to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, resurrecting a bipartisan deal that President Trump and the House G.O.P. had angrily rejected last week.
The plan would fund the department through Sept. 30 but omit money for the agencies carrying out Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown. G.O.P. leaders hoped to push it through without any debate or formal vote as early as Thursday morning, though hard-right Republicans irate about the deal signaled they might not allow it to move quickly.
In a joint statement, Mike Johnson, House speaker, and John Thune, Senate majority leader, said they would move to pass a measure, approved by the Senate unanimously last week, which would fund DHS while excluding money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and parts of Customs and Border Protection.
They would also abandon an attempt pushed by House Republicans to fund all of the DHS for 60 days, which Senate Democrats vowed to block with a filibuster.
Democrats have objected to funding ICE and other agencies involved in Trump’s mass deportation campaign unless the administration agreed to new rules governing agents’ conduct when making immigration arrests, including a ban on wearing masks and a requirement that they seek judicial warrants before entering residences.
To get around their objections, Thune and Johnson endorsed a plan from the Senate budget committee chair, Lindsey Graham, to write a measure funding ICE that could be passed with Republican votes alone, using the budget reconciliation procedure.
“We appreciate that Senator Graham and the Senate budget committee have already initiated the process of developing a budget resolution that will ensure border security and immigration enforcement will be funded for the balance of the Trump administration and insulated from future attempts by the Democrats to defund those agencies,” the Republican leaders said.
It remains unclear when the Senate and House of Representatives, which are scheduled to be on recess through this week and the next, can pass the DHS funding bill.