After months of resistance, the Home on Thursday handed the Senate-backed Division of Homeland Safety funding invoice, which funds all businesses inside DHS besides immigration enforcement operations.
The invoice handed through voice vote. There was no recorded vote requested.
President Donald Trump signed the invoice Thursday afternoon, the White Home confirmed, successfully ending the record-long DHS shutdown after 76 days.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin had warned additional funding to pay his division’s staff would have “dried up” by the primary week of Might.
The Home took motion simply earlier than Congress leaves for a weeklong recess.
“This may relieve strain from the Division of Homeland Safety,” Johnson instructed reporters after the vote. “We’re not going to have traces at TSA. All people will get their paychecks now. We’ll get shifting ahead.”
The US Capitol is seen, April 20, 2026 in Washington.
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Whereas the bundle funds most of DHS — the Transportation Safety Administration, the Federal Emergency Administration Company, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company — it doesn’t embrace funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and elements of Customs and Border Safety.
Republicans are engaged on a separate finances invoice to fund these businesses via reconciliation, a course of that can permit them to cross laws with none Democratic assist.
Late Wednesday evening, Home Republicans narrowly accepted a finances blueprint that would offer billions of {dollars} to ICE and CBP, funding the businesses for the rest of Trump’s time period.
Trump set a June 1 deadline for Republicans to fund the immigration enforcement businesses.
The DHS funding struggle kicked into excessive gear after two Americans had been fatally shot by federal brokers throughout Trump’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.
Democrats mentioned they might not assist funding with out important reforms to ICE and CBP’s working procedures. However talks between Democrats and the White Home in March in the end yielded no breakthrough.
“Democrats acquired completely nothing for his or her political charade and shenanigans,” Johnson mentioned on Thursday.
Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson speaks to reporters after passage of a Division of Homeland Safety funding invoice, on April 30, 2026, on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.
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Sen. Chuck Schumer, the chamber’s high Democrat, criticized Johnson for ready weeks to vote on the DHS funding invoice that handed the Senate by unanimous consent on March 27.
“Over a month of pointless ache for tens of millions of Individuals delivered to you by the Home GOP,” Schumer posed on X.
Home Minority Chief Hakeem Jeffries mentioned the Home GOP “stored the Division of Homeland Safety shut down due to their poisonous demand to spend billions of taxpayer {dollars} on ICE brutality.”
ABC Information Capitol Hill Correspondent Jay O’Brien pressed Johnson on why the Home did not act on the measure sooner. The speaker defended his resolution to stall the vote, saying he waited till Republicans handed the finances decision for ICE and CBP earlier than shifting on funding for the remainder of DHS.
“They wished to orphan these two essential businesses which are below the umbrella of Homeland Safety, I remind everyone on the Hill on a regular basis, Division of Homeland Safety is the third-largest division of the federal authorities. It has essential duties,” Johnson mentioned.
