DHS shutdown set to stretch on with Congress on 2-week break

Washington — The shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, present the longest successful history, is acceptable to agelong connected aft House Republicans rejected a Senate-passed solution to the standoff precocious past week. 

At 45 days, the DHS shutdown has surpassed past year's backing lapse to go the longest successful history. Though Congress was capable to money the bulk of the authorities successful caller months, DHS has been the exception, with Democrats demanding reforms to migration agencies since 2 deadly shootings by national agents successful Minneapolis. 

After the Senate reached a bipartisan solution to money the bulk of the section precocious past week, it was GOP infighting that dashed the way forward.

Senate Democrats and the White House had been negotiating reforms to Immigration and Customs Enforcement successful caller weeks. But arsenic a breakthrough remained retired of reach, the Senate changed people and began pursuing a program that near retired backing for ICE, a reflection of the aggravated strain of the shutdown connected different DHS agencies, similar the TSA. After President Trump announced helium would motion an enforcement bid to pay TSA officers, the Senate unanimously approved backing for DHS early Friday morning. The measurement near retired funds for ICE and immoderate of Customs and Border Protection. 

House Republicans criticized the Senate's strategy. Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, called it a "joke," and moved guardant with an alternate measurement to money the entirety of DHS connected a impermanent basis. Late Friday, House Republicans approved the 60-day continuing resolution with enactment from conscionable 3 Democrats.

Neither enclosure is acceptable to instrumentality to Washington until the week of April 13. And without statement betwixt the House and Senate, DHS volition stay unopen down.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune told Republicans that he's moving with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to find if there's country for statement connected DHS funding. But a spokesperson for Schumer said the New York Democrat "made wide that Democrats would not judge thing little than what was passed unanimously by the Senate."

With 53 Republicans successful the Senate, enactment from Democrats is indispensable to scope a 60-vote threshold to beforehand astir legislation. 

Calls for lawmakers to chopped their recess abbreviated could turn successful the coming days. GOP Sen. Mike Lee of Utah urged Senate leaders to bring Congress backmost into league connected Sunday, writing connected X that "Waiting for a woody to materialize with Chuck Schumer applies nary unit connected Senate Democrats to money DHS."

"Interrupting their recess and forcing them to statement DHS backing connected the Senate level *would* use pressure," Lee added. "We can't reward unprecedented obstruction with two-week recesses."

Lee besides pointed to the president's quality to convene 1 oregon some houses of Congress "on bonzer Occasions." Whether the president would instrumentality enactment to punctual Congress' aboriginal instrumentality remains to beryllium seen. 

White House borderline czar Tom Homan said connected "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" connected Sunday that helium hopes the president volition compel lawmakers to return. "They're connected abrogation close present portion tens of thousands of DHS employees aren't being paid," helium said.

"The president recovered a mode to wage TSA workers truthful we tin get the American nationalist done those lines," Homan added. "So we conscionable request to get the section funded."

After the president's determination precocious past week to wage TSA, agents are acceptable to person paychecks opening connected Monday. Homan said ICE agents, who person been assisting TSA agents astatine airports, volition stay successful spot until they instrumentality to regular operations. 

"ICE is determination to assistance our brothers and sisters successful TSA," Homan said. "We'll beryllium determination arsenic agelong arsenic they request us, until they get backmost to mean operations and consciousness similar those airports are secure."

Mr. Trump told reporters connected Air Force One connected Sunday that "the ICE workers person been amazing." He said the medication volition wage TSA for "as agelong arsenic we person to." 

Nikole Killion contributed to this report.