{"id":22090,"date":"2026-04-30T16:32:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-republicans-eye-passage-of-senate-backed-dhs-funding-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T16:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T16:32:17","slug":"house-republicans-eye-passage-of-senate-backed-dhs-funding-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/house-republicans-eye-passage-of-senate-backed-dhs-funding-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans eye passage of Senate-backed DHS funding bill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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House Republican leaders are working to approve a bill Thursday that would fund all of the Department of Homeland Security except its immigration enforcement agencies \u2014 potentially ending the department’s 76-day shutdown \u2014 according to a half-dozen people granted anonymity to describe the behind-the-scenes talks.<\/p>\n

Speaker Mike Johnson<\/a> is discussing the idea with members of his conference who have wanted to hold off on passage of the bill<\/a> until Republicans enact a separate party-line package to fund agencies including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.<\/p>\n

The Senate passed the partial DHS funding measure<\/a> in March, but for more than a month, House GOP leaders have bowed to the holdouts<\/a> and resisted calls to send it to President Donald Trump’s desk. Now the White House and some House Republican lawmakers are pressuring Johnson<\/a> to clear the bill before lawmakers leave town for a weeklong recess.<\/p>\n

House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole<\/a> of Oklahoma and House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain<\/a> of Michigan were among the Republican lawmakers who confirmed that GOP leaders are attempting to send the bill on for Trump\u2019s signature Thursday.<\/p>\n

Johnson and Cole have both floated the idea of tweaking<\/a> the bill to omit language explicitly stating that ICE and Border Patrol aren\u2019t funded. But that would require sending it back to the Senate \u2014 not directly to Trump.<\/p>\n

The speaker is still considering whether to alter the bill or put it on the floor without changes, the people familiar with the talks said. Either would involve using a fast-track process that requires support from two-thirds of lawmakers for passage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

House Republican leaders are working to approve a bill Thursday that would fund all of the Department of Homeland Security except its immigration enforcement agencies \u2014 potentially ending the department’s 76-day shutdown \u2014 according to a half-dozen people granted anonymity to describe the behind-the-scenes talks. Speaker Mike Johnson is discussing the idea with members of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}