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House approves bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security and end the record shutdown

1 hour 25 minutes 16 seconds ago Thursday, April 30 2026 Apr 30, 2026 April 30, 2026 12:40 PM April 30, 2026 in News
Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — After weeks of delay, the House voted Thursday to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security, but not its immigration enforcement operations, and sent the bipartisan package to President Donald Trump to sign, ending the longest agency shutdown in history.

The White House had warned that temporary funding that Trump had tapped to pay Transportation Security Administration and other agency personnel would “soon run out,” and that sparked new threats of airport disruptions.

DHS has been without routine funds since Feb. 14, causing hardship for workers, though much of Trump’s immigration agenda that is central to the dispute is being funded separately.

“It is about damn time,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, who proposed the bill more than two months ago.

The House swiftly voted by voice, without a formal roll call, to pass the measure.

The House’s narrow Republican majority has repeatedly stalled out under House Speaker Mike Johnson, with his own party tangled in internal disputes on a range of pending issues, including homeland security funding. While the Senate unanimously approved the bipartisan package a month ago, the bill languished in the House.

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