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• Shutdown poised to continue for DHS after House, Senate take diverging paths - March 27, 2026

• A breakthrough appeared early Friday morning but House Republicans appeared to quickly kill it.

  Eric Katz, Government Executive

  The Homeland Security Department shutdown appears poised to continue after the Senate and House took diverging paths on Friday, leaving the agency unfunded as lawmakers leave Washington for a two-week recess.

  The Senate early Friday morning unanimously passed a measure to fund all of DHS except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, the two agencies most central to carrying out President Trump’s immigration crackdown. ICE and CBP are currently operating normally and paying employees using existing appropriations and Republicans planned to separately pass a bill to fully fund the agencies.

  That plan to largely end the single-agency shutdown, which began Feb. 14, was disrupted later in the day, however, when House Republicans balked at the Senate’s bill. Instead, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said the chamber will vote Friday evening on a bill to extend funding for all of DHS for 60 days. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has already declared such a bill dead on arrival and senators have left town anyway. 

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