House GOP plots clean DHS stopgap, signaling rejection of Senate deal

House GOP leaders on a Friday conference call pitched their members on rejecting a Senate deal funding much of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and instead passing an eight-week stopgap that would fund the whole thing, according to a source familiar with the call.

The move would amount to a stunning rebuke of the upper chamber by GOP leaders — and extend the length of what is already the longest partial government shutdown in history in its 42nd day.

Conservatives in the House had fumed at the Senate deal, which caught House members by surprise and passed in the wee hours of Friday morning. The Senate bill funds much of the DHS, but not Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Those parts of the DHS are at the center of the shutdown fight. Democrats have demanded reforms after DHS personnel shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis in January in separate incidents.

Members of the House Freedom Caucus had put pressure on House GOP leaders to reject the deal earlier Friday.

House GOP leaders were also outraged at the Senate deal, expressing their displeasure to members on the call. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) warned the conference that the Senate bill would set a dangerous precedent to defund entire programs in appropriations bills, another source said.

There is little chance of an eight-week DHS stopgap, though, passing in the Senate, which would need Democratic support to clear the chamber’s 60-vote threshold. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) posted on social media that such a measure would be “dead on arrival” in the Senate.

The bill funding much of DHS also passed the Senate by unanimous consent, underlining its broad support.

President Trump, however, has not publicly weighed in on whether or not he supports the Senate deal.

Trump’s executive order to pay Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents despite the shutdown is also removing a key pressure point that otherwise might prompt lawmakers to come to a compromise.

Trump on Thursday, as the Senate was trying to negotiate a deal, announced he would fund TSA. It’s expected Trump would use money from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that was approved last summer. It has repeatedly been used to pay ICE and CBP personnel during shutdowns.

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