“Following the successful strikes on Iran and the FBI’s warning of elevated threats here at home, it is dangerous for Democrats in Washington to keep the Department of Homeland Security shut down,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) said on X on Sunday afternoon following a call with the House GOP conference.

“This week, we are calling on House Democrats to end their dangerous games by bringing to the floor legislation to end the DHS shutdown so we can ensure agencies can protect America during this dangerous time,” Scalise added.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told Republicans the DHS funding bill will largely resemble the one that passed the chamber in January but stalled in the Senate, the Washington Examiner confirmed. The House rules committee is scheduled to meet on Tuesday to discuss the legislation.

The decision to put the DHS bill on the floor for the second time comes as negotiations between the White House, Senate Democrats, and Senate Republicans remain up in the air over how to proceed with funding for immigration agencies. 

But Republicans have pointed to possible dangers spreading across the country in response to the U.S. striking Iran over the weekend, which they say requires a fully-funded DHS. Several members have already pointed to one shooting in Austin that happened over the weekend, which authorities are investigating as possibly motivated by the conflict in Iran. 

One House Republican on Sunday’s conference call told the Washington Examiner that putting the DHS bill on the floor will show that the GOP is staying on offense.

“We’ve already funded it. We’ll vote to fund it again,” the member said of Republicans. “What are you doing, Democrats? Why are you blocking funding when we’re at war?”

The DHS bill received seven House Democratic votes when it came up for a vote in January, and the prolonged shutdown, coupled with the news out of Iran, increases the chances the second DHS bill will get the same, if not more, support from centrist Democrats.

One point of contention among conservatives, however, is that they want to attach the SAVE America Act to the DHS funding bill to force the Senate to take up the bill. The legislation, which will require voter ID and proof of citizenship to register in elections, has become a focal point of the Republican agenda.

But Senate Republican leadership under Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has been hesitant to remove the 60-vote filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act, something which many conservatives in the House are demanding he do. 

The House Republican on the call told the Washington Examiner that there is a bloc of the conference that wants to see more pressure being put on the Senate, not just on the SAVE America Act, but on other issues as well.

“Get busy doing some things. You know, we’re not moving confirmations enough. Why are you out of session again, you know, when you still haven’t gotten this done? Force Democrats to be there. There’s no urgency. There’s just a lot of excuses,” the Republican said.

Some Republicans suggested on the call that the House hold votes on any legislation sent over by the Senate until the SAVE America Act gets a vote in the upper chamber. But others don’t see a reason to add the SAVE America Act to a funding bill. Doing so would likely make any funding bill for Homeland Security dead in the water, considering it will already be difficult to get a handful of Democrats to pass any funding for DHS without serious immigration enforcement reforms.

“We have passed the save act twice,” Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE) told the Washington Examiner in a text. “I think [it’s] more important to get dhs funded.”

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) told the Washington Examiner in an interview he thinks the House should “bombard the Senate” with multiple bills, whether that’s a stand-alone DHS funding bill or a funding bill with the SAVE America Act attached.

For now, the DHS funding bill will get a vote without the SAVE America Act attached, Johnson told House Republicans on Sunday’s call, citing DHS as the immediate priority due to the Iran strikes. The speaker is also wary of optics heading into the competitive midterm election cycle this year, reportedly telling his members that “if we’re going to go to war against our own party in the Senate, there may be implications to that,” Fox News Digital reported.

That mentality doesn’t sit well with Roy.

“I keep hearing House Republicans saying, ‘Well, we don’t want to be seen as having interparty squabbles heading into the election.’ You know what else? We don’t want to be seen as doing nothing, so we should do something,” Roy said.

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The House is only scheduled to vote on Wednesday and Thursday this week, with members set to receive a briefing on the Iran strikes from administration officials on Tuesday. Democrats requested Friday to be a no-vote day so members could attend the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s funeral.

Coming up for a vote this week, likely on Thursday, will be a bipartisan war powers resolution by Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) to prohibit any unauthorized U.S. military action against Iran. Most House Republicans and a few House Democrats have come out against the war powers resolution, diminishing its chances of passing.

The Washington Examiner reached out to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) for comment.