DHS funding bill in House’s court after Trump, GOP leaders reach deal

A Senate bill setting up a two-step path to ending the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown is back in the House’s court. 

The Senate sent a bipartisan bill to fund the bulk of the department, aside from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, to the lower chamber on Thursday by unanimous consent in an early morning pro forma session.

The House met for its own pro forma session shortly after, but did not attempt to advance the bill, which is facing resistance from hardline conservatives.

Republican leaders and President Trump are aiming to reopen the bulk of DHS, including the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Coast Guard.

They then hope to pass a bill through a GOP-only reconciliation bill to fund border security operations, after they were unable to come to an agreement on immigration enforcement reforms with Democrats who have refused to vote for such funding otherwise.

Trump endorsed that plan on Wednesday, setting a June 1 deadline for the bill to use a special process that bypasses a Democratic filibuster in the Senate.

The Senate had passed the bipartisan DHS bill last week, but House Republicans had strongly rejected it, instead passing a stopgap to fund DHS at current levels for eight weeks.

House GOP leadership shifted strategies, though, when it became clear that the stopgap could not overcome a filibuster and Trump endorsed funding border security operations in a reconciliation bill. 

Both chambers are on recess and not scheduled to return until the week of April 13. 

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