House passes short-term DHS funding bill

The House on Friday night passed a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security until May 22. Why it matters: House GOP leaders' decision not to act on a Senate-passed plan has stoked tensions between House and Senate Republicans and raised questions about the path forward for ending the DHS shutdown, now well into its second month. The Senate's plan would fund DHS through Sept. 30, but without money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) instead advanced an eight-week stopgap that fully funds DHS, including ICE and CBP. The vote was 213-203, with three House Democrats joining all Republicans in support. Democratic Reps. Don Davis (N.C.), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez ( Wash.) and Henry Cuellar (Texas) voted yes. Catch up quick: The Senate voted in the early hours of Friday morning to pass a bill that would reopen all of the Department of Homeland Security , excluding funding for ICE and CBP. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) had signaled that Republicans plan to address those agencies later through reconciliation , with only GOP votes. Johnson called the Senate-passed bill a "joke," noting the lack of border security funding. Senate Democrats have already made clear they will oppose the House's short-term DHS funding bill. What's next: The Senate, which just left for a two-week recess, will have to determine whether its members will return to Washington and take up the House-passed bill.

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