House passes bill to fully fund DHS through May 22; top Democrat says 'dead on arrival' in Senate
The House voted Friday to approve a short-term bill to fund the entire Department of Homeland Security for eight weeks, sending the measure back to the Senate, where the top Democrat says it is "dead on arrival."
The House vote late Friday was 213-203. Three Democrats crossed party lines to vote in favor: Reps. Henry Cuellar, of Texas; Don Davis, of North Carolina; and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, of Washington.
There are not currently plans for the Senate to return from its scheduled two-week recess to address the ongoing DHS shutdown, a GOP aide confirmed to ABC News.
The ongoing Capitol Hill impasse means the partial shutdown is expected to drag on as lawmakers fight over a path forward.
The House vote to extend funding for all of DHS through May 22 came several hours after the Senate approved a bill early Friday morning to fund most of DHS except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and parts of Customs and Border Protection.
Ahead of the House vote, Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had vowed that the House bill would be "dead on arrival" in the Senate, meaning Democrats will not provide enough support to reach a 60-vote threshold.
Senators have left town for a two-week recess and are not planning to return until Monday, April 13. House members are also leaving to depart for the two-week holiday break and are not planning to return until Tuesday, April 14.
Earlier Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson and GOP leaders rejected the Senate-passed DHS bill.
"This gambit that was done last night is a joke," Johnson told reporters in a news conference on Friday.
Amid the gridlock on Capitol Hill, President Donald Trump on Friday signed a presidential memorandum directing Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to pay TSA employees. DHS said that workers will start seeing paychecks on Monday.
President Trump, in a phone interview with Fox News on Friday afternoon, said the Senate deal on DHS "wasn't good" and "wasn't appropriate."
The Senate, at 2 a.m. on Friday morning, approved a funding bill that included TSA, Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Coast Guard and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
The package did not include money for ICE or parts of CBP, though those agencies continue to receive funds due to an influx of cash provided in the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill passed by Congress last summer.
Also absent from the Senate bill are any of the reforms to ICE's operating procedures that Democrats have been repeatedly demanding following the fatal shootings of two American citizens in Minneapolis by federal agents earlier this year.
Still, Schumer said he was proud of Democrats who "held the line" on their objection to funding ICE and CBP without reforms.
"Democrats held firm in our position that Donald Trump's rogue and deadly militia should not get more funding without serious reforms and we will continue to fight for those reforms," he said.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune lambasted Democrats on the floor for what he framed as their refusal to negotiate in good faith. He said Democrats could have secured some of their desired reforms if they hadn't complicated negotiations.
"We could be standing here right now passing a funding bill with a list of reforms if the Democrats had made the smallest effort to actually reach an agreement. But they didn't, because it's now clear to everyone, Democrats didn't actually want a solution, they wanted an issue, politics over policy, self-interest over reform, pandering to their base over actually solving a problem," Thune said.
Senate Republicans vowed to work on a package later this year to approve even more funding for ICE and CBP, saying they aim to do it using reconciliation -- a budget tool that, if successful, would allow them to sidestep Democratic objection and pass the bill without any Democratic support.
Republicans are already warning that that bill will be much harsher and Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., vowed it would "supercharge deportations."
ABC News' Allison Pecorin and Lalee Ibssa contributed to this report.
