Senate agrees to fund TSA and most of DHS, but not ICE

[American Girl]

Excerpt:
This partial funding deal is exactly why the swamp still feels comfortable. Democrats get to protect their illegal immigrant base, RINOs get to pretend they’re compromising, and the American people get stuck with more delays, more crime, and weaker borders.
The House now holds the line. If they cave like the Senate did, the betrayal will be complete. Patriots are watching closely — and they will remember who stood with America and who chose politics over security.



The House won’t pass that shit so what Thune did is give the democrats something they can bitch about because now dems will say republicans are blocking it. Thune has got to go.

https://www.rightjournalism.com/breaking-the-senate-just-passed-a-bill-funding-most-of-dhs-but-skipped-the-key-part-that-could-cost-them-the-midterms/

[mystery-ak]

 Senate agrees to fund TSA and most of DHS, but not ICE
by Alexander Bolton - 03/27/26 3:56 AM ET

Senators agreed by unanimous consent early Friday morning to a proposal that funds the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and other critical agencies in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The late-night Senate deal left out funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol after negotiators failed to agree on reforms demanded by Democrats after federal immigration officers fatally shot two protesters in Minneapolis in January.

The deal came together swiftly after months of often-stalled negotiations and just before lawmakers were set to depart for a two-week recess — and as hours-long lines at airport TSA checkpoints put enormous pressure on them to act.

Senate leaders sent around a hotline request to senators early Friday morning to see if there would be objections to funding TSA, the Coast Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) by unanimous consent. The proposal also included funding for customs officers at border checkpoints.

When it returned without objection, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) moved quickly to unanimously approve the funding that had been stalled for more than 40 days.

The speedy agreement was surprising given that Democrats had on several occasions this month requested unanimous consent on the Senate floor to fund TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard and CISA with Republicans objecting each time.

Thune told reporters Friday morning that Republicans rejected those earlier efforts to fund DHS in pieces because they were hoping for a deal to fund the entire department.

But Thune said they abandoned that effort and “pivoted” to a new strategy when it became clear that Democrats would not accept the reforms Republicans were willing to make to ICE in exchange for passing the entire Homeland Security appropriations bill.

“This was all about reforms and they were all on the table,” he said. “Basically, that door kind of closed and they started to take the funding [for ICE] off the table. … I just think their base was demanding that they not fund ICE.

“We had hoped we would get a funding bill and we were trying to accommodate their requests for reform,” he added. “We couldn’t get any closer on it so you kind of pivot to the next strategy. But it’s unfortunate it didn’t get done because it’s not good for America.”

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) declared victory on the Senate floor.

more
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5803727-tsa-dhs-funding-ice-senate/

[Smokin Joe]

To the GOP:
Just.
Quit.
Caving.

[mystery-ak]

35 minutes ago
Johnson faces tricky task on funding for most of DHS
Emily Brooks

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has a tricky task ahead in quickly moving forward the Senate deal to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), minus Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol.

It would be difficult to bring the legislation up under a regular rule, which typically passes with a party-line vote, due to conservative demands for the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act voting bill. Some conservatives have also said they don’t like the idea of breaking up the DHS bill.

The fast-track process of suspension of the rules, which would require substantial support from Democrats, would allow the measure to pass on a two-thirds vote of the House. That option, however, is only available on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, per the House rules — and it would take unanimous consent to change that, meaning leadership would be banking on no Republican or Democrat objecting.

House GOP leaders are assessing where members are and what is doable on Friday to pass the bill. The House gavels in at 9 a.m. EDT and votes are scheduled for 10 a.m. EDT.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5802558-live-updates-trump-dhs-shutdown-tsa-iran/

[mystery-ak]

Byron York
@ByronYork
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1h
The Senate has voted to fund DHS *except for* ICE and Border Patrol. This happened after a Trump threat, but how is it not a big Democratic win? In the past, the party that attached conditions to re-opening the government, or parts of the government, lost the shutdown. Now, Democrats have gotten away with attaching conditions to re-opening the government, and Republicans have agreed to a deal funding most of DHS, but not its immigration enforcement and deportation operations.

What was the big Republican mistake here? Negotiating. You don't negotiate with people who are shutting down all or part of the government. The proper response to a threatened shutdown is: "Re-open the government, and then we'll talk about your issue. But first the government has to be re-opened." That is always the public's view. Instead, the GOP agreed to start talks. Once that happened, it legitimized the Democratic position of shutting down part of the government, in this case TSA, while demanding changes in immigration enforcement. Instead of seeing Democrats shutting down TSA over an unrelated policy dispute, the public saw two sides negotiating and unable to agree. So they blamed everybody when this was, in fact, a Democratic move to cripple the administration's enforcement of federal immigration law.


Guy Benson
@guypbenson
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37m
Replying to
@ByronYork
Yes, although Democrats didn’t actually achieve anything. They caused a 40+ day shutdown & ended up getting zero policy changes to the agency they’re demonizing, which has been funded the whole time. And Rs say they’ll fund that agency further through reconciliation anyway. I guess the win was causing the harm and pain without really getting punished for it & showing unity in resistance.

[mountaineer]

ICE was funded by the Big Beautiful Bill, wasn't it? When does that run out?

[mystery-ak]

Jake Sherman
@JakeSherman
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2h
🚨THE HOUSE is going to have big problems moving the DHS funding bill today.

In the rules for the 119th Congress, House Republicans handcuffed themselves.

The majority can not move bills under suspension of the rules on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.

Hardline conservatives hate moving bills under suspension because it bypasses the rule vote -- where they have the most leverage. Suspensions short-circuit that process but they need 2/3 majority.

So @SpeakerJohnson
 can go to the Rules Committee, where he can try to get a rule -- no sure thing. If he does get one, he can try to pass a rule on the floor -- no sure thing there either with his margins. Rules are party-line votes.

Or he can wait until Monday, where he can pass this on suspension.

Either way, suspension is going to be controversial.

Maybe Trump can convince HFC types to pass a rule. But I don't know that that will work. No SAVE America Act in this. And rules are hard in the best of times.

[mystery-ak]

ICE was funded by the Big Beautiful Bill, wasn't it? When does that run out?

2029

[Mod2]

Topics merged

[mystery-ak]

I don't get it...ICE was funded in the Big Beautiful Bill until 2029...then what is this?

https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2037502044659953806

[mystery-ak]

I said last night this is all about getting their Easter break...


Sam
@Sam_T_1
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22m
ICE is already funded but this is a chicken shit way out and letting the Dems off. Everyone wants their little vacation instead of doing their damn job. Talk about fumbling the ball at the 1 yard line.

[Kamaji]

To the GOP:
Just.
Quit.
Caving.

[mystery-ak]

Handful Of Senators Ram Through DHS Funding Bill So They Can Take 2 Week Vacation

https://dailycaller.com/2026/03/27/handful-of-senators-pass-dhs-funding-bill-before-two-week-vacation/

[catfish1957]

I think every year I watch this Kabuki shit, my support for term limits doubles. 

I am now at the point of one term and done for all 535...  period, and to hell with continuity. 

[mountaineer]

I think every year I watch this Kabuki shit, my support for term limits doubles. 

I am now at the point of one term and done for all 535...  period, and to hell with continuity.

I could live with a limit of two terms. But definitely some kind of limit.

[Timber Rattler]

Thune and the Republicans caved, and the libs are cheering their victory this morning all over Social Media.

His pathetic excuse:

"This is not the way to fund the Department. But, we were out of time.'

'The Dems wanted reforms,' Thune said. 'We tried to work with them on reforms. They ended up getting no reforms but, you know, we're going to have to fight some of those battles another day.'

So yeah, screw that guy.

[libertybele]

The GOP can kiss my royal grits!!! The vast majority are azzhats and them agreeing not to fund ICE which was the 'beef' all along in my eyes is treasonous.  They are traitors and definitely did NOT do what was in the best interest of this country.

[mystery-ak]

What really gets me is that both sides agreed on the same items weeks ago yet they watched as TSA employees suffered immensely without their paychecks..talk about cruel.

[mountaineer]

@amuse
@amuse
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN: Senate Republicans, desperate to depart for their 14-day paid vacation have passed a DHS funding bill that restores pay for TSA Agents, but eliminates $5.4 billion in ICE immigration enforcement funding. Another win for Democrats and ICE Watch. Will they stay to restore ICE funding via reconciliation or leave for vacation? I assume there is ZERO chance they’ll try to pass the SAVE Act.
4:56 AM · Mar 27, 2026

[libertybele]

@amuse
@amuse
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN: Senate Republicans, desperate to depart for their 14-day paid vacation have passed a DHS funding bill that restores pay for TSA Agents, but eliminates $5.4 billion in ICE immigration enforcement funding. Another win for Democrats and ICE Watch. Will they stay to restore ICE funding via reconciliation or leave for vacation? I assume there is ZERO chance they’ll try to pass the SAVE Act.
4:56 AM · Mar 27, 2026

Heck no they aren't going to stay.  They are more worried about their vacation and could give a damn about Americans or America.

[mystery-ak]

@amuse
@amuse
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN: Senate Republicans, desperate to depart for their 14-day paid vacation have passed a DHS funding bill that restores pay for TSA Agents, but eliminates $5.4 billion in ICE immigration enforcement funding. Another win for Democrats and ICE Watch. Will they stay to restore ICE funding via reconciliation or leave for vacation? I assume there is ZERO chance they’ll try to pass the SAVE Act.
4:56 AM · Mar 27, 2026

Then what was in the Big Beautiful Bill??
This is very confusing..I keep reading this morning that ICE is fully funded until 2029.

[mystery-ak]

 End to airport misery in sight as Senate approves deal to end DHS shutdown — without Dem immigration demands
By Chris Bradford and
Samuel Chamberlain
Published March 27, 2026
Updated March 27, 2026, 6:38 a.m. ET

Senators approved a compromise measure early Friday to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security through the end of September, taking a major step toward ending the 42-day partial shutdown that has seen hundreds of airport security workers quit after missing paychecks and snarled travel nationwide.

The agreement, passed by voice vote before senators departed Washington for a two-week recess for Easter and Passover, will be considered by the House later Friday morning.

The last-ditch deal does not include any of the demands Democrats have placed on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — including that agents be barred from wearing masks and operate under tougher warrant requirements to detain illegal migrants.

The bill does not provide funding for ICE or Border Patrol, but those subagencies already received billions of dollars under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act signed into law by President Trump this past July and immigration enforcement has gone on uninterrupted by the shutdown.

Nevertheless, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) proclaimed that Democrats had “held the line.”

more
https://nypost.com/2026/03/27/us-news/senate-advances-dhs-funding-in-last-minute-deal-nearing-end-to-shutdown/

[libertybele]

Then what was in the Big Beautiful Bill??
This is very confusing..I keep reading this morning that ICE is fully funded until 2029.

It is confusing.  If ICE is funded, then why the shutdown??

[bigheadfred]

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
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32m
Because Senate Democrats didn’t end up accepting the Republican offer on DHS funding & negotiations fell apart yesterday, Dems will get *zero* of the ICE reforms they had been demanding, including ones that GOP had already agreed to, like showing ID, increased Congressional oversight, agreements to not hit sensitive locations, etc.

These reforms were the reason Dems started the shutdown in the first place, and now instead of getting a few concessions on their demand list, they get none.

The only thing they secured was no funding for CBP & ICE, which are largely already funded via the OBBB, and Republicans will seek to fund them even further without Dem votes in reconciliation instead.

As for the Dem’s demand list on ICE reforms?

“That ship has sailed,” Sen. Majority Leader John Thune said this morning. “They kissed that opportunity goodbye by failing to provide funding for those agencies.”

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2037531151758156250

[DefiantMassRINO]

Nothing like Trump swooping in to save the day with an Executive Order to get Dem Senators off their elitist @$$es.

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2037537459488145573

[mystery-ak]

Bo Snerdley
@BoSnerdley
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1h
So what did Democrats accomplish by shutting down DHS for over 40 days? They failed to shut down immigration law enforcement at ICE - which was their goal.

1) They abused TSA and other government workers - making their lives miserable -  putting some in financial ruin that forced them to quit their jobs.
 
2) They made the lives of millions of American travelers miserable and upended their plans - with zero apologies.

3) They proved they put illegal aliens above American citizens again. That message should now be driven home to ALL Americans.

[mystery-ak]

toddstarnes
@toddstarnes
·
1h
Don't listen to the spin coming from Senate Republicans. Democrats got everything they wanted. American voters got screwed.

There was a reason why John Thune scheduled the vote while the nation was asleep - so they could skip town before voters woke up and discovered what they had done.

And here's the real kick in the pants - Republican senators left for yet another vacation without doing anything about the Save America Act.

There's no polite way to say this - but Senate Republicans are sabotaging the midterm elections and President Trump's agenda.

[Wingnut]

In Sept the Rat bastards will shut it down again.  If I was a TSA agent I'd be considering other employment.  If I was Trump I would look to privatise the TSA.