{"id":2581841,"date":"2026-03-19T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/centrists-push-end-to-dhs-shutdown-with-new-restrictions-on-ice\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:37:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T20:37:38","slug":"centrists-push-end-to-dhs-shutdown-with-new-restrictions-on-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/centrists-push-end-to-dhs-shutdown-with-new-restrictions-on-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Centrists push end to DHS shutdown with new restrictions on ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcentrists-push-end-to-dhs-shutdown-with-new-restrictions-on-ice%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2581841&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A bipartisan pair in the U.S.House, rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY), are proposing a compromise bill to end the monthlong Department of Homeland Security shutdown by funding DHS while imposing tighter restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The plan, introduced by the Problem Solvers caucus co-chairs, would fund DHS but add oversight provisions for ICE, such as body cameras, enhanced training, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dhs-shutdown-white-house-floats-requiring-ice-agents-to-self-identify\/\" title=\"... ...: ... floats requiring ... agents to self-identify\">visible officer identification<\/a>, and other reforms to ensure ICE operations align with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/d-c-mayor-congress-must-open-a-probe-into-security-failures-at-u-s-capitol\/\" title=\"D.C. Mayor: Congress must open a probe into security failures at U.S. Capitol\">federal law enforcement<\/a> standards. The lawmakers say the approach focuses on areas of agreement while separating issues of disagreement to secure funding.<\/p>\n<p>The effort builds on their prior work, including a two-year extension of ACA subsidies, and follows a broader impasse over immigration policy. A DHS funding measure already passed the House but stalled in the Senate after Democrats demanded major ICE reforms. The White House has floated a five-point offer including more body cameras, safeguards for hospitals and schools, detention- facility oversight, and clearer identification-calls Democrats have rejected as insufficient. Democrats, led by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, are pressing a discharge petition to force a vote on DHS funding that excludes ICE and other immigration agencies, while a few Republicans have supported similar discharge moves in other contexts.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzpatrick and Suozzi aim to present their compromise to colleagues and build support to reopen DHS, with ICE continuing to receive some funding under existing arrangements amid the stalemate.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Centrist House duo offers compromise plan to end DHS shutdown with ICE restrictions<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2536782\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>A bipartisan duo in the House is offering a compromise plan to end the monthlong shutdown of the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-homeland-security\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"3083\">Department of Homeland Security<\/a> that would fund the agency while tightening oversight of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ice\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ice\/\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> &mdash; a rare middle-ground effort amid an escalating partisan standoff over immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tom-suozzi\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"8876\">Tom Suozzi<\/a> (D-NY) are introducing a bill to fund DHS but also include some restrictions on ICE, largely pushed by Democrats, such as body cameras, training, visible officer identification, and others.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4497212\/house-oversight-committee-greenlights-bill-ditch-dc-speeding-cameras\/\">House oversight committee greenlights bill to ditch DC speeding cameras<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4497314\/house-republicans-fisa-702-surveillance-weaponization\/\">House Republicans warm up on spy bill renewal despite weaponization fears<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4497066\/watch-live-gabbard-patel-ratcliffe-worldwide-threat-hearings-day-2\/\">WATCH LIVE: Gabbard, Patel, and Ratcliffe return to the Hill for worldwide threat hearings Day 2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Fitzpatrick and Suozzi are co-chairs of the Problem Solvers Caucus, a 46-member bipartisan group that seeks to find common ground on issues such as immigration and affordability among Democrats and Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The duo launched a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OPIMg4nxNIs\">podcast<\/a>, called The Pod Couple, on Thursday in which they discussed their work to find a path forward on DHS funding.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The common sense solution would be ok, what is that we agree on, and let&rsquo;s get that funded, and the area that we disagree, let&rsquo;s siphon that off and figure out a way to find common ground, and that&rsquo;s exactly what we&rsquo;re doing,&rdquo; Fitzpatrick said on the podcast.<\/p>\n<p>The two lawmakers have previously <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3913907\/bipartisan-group-discharge-petition-force-vote-obamacare-subsidies\/\">worked on a two-year extension <\/a>of Affordable Care Act subsidies. That legislation was sidelined, however, after the House Democratic leadership pushed for a three-year, clean extension instead.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzpatrick, a former FBI agent, said Suozzi and himself are working to iron out the details on their proposal, hoping to keep it simple and include reforms to ensure ICE is &ldquo;conducting themselves, comporting themselves in a way that&rsquo;s consistent with all federal law enforcement.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Suozzi, who oversaw the 12th-largest police department in the U.S. as Nassau County Executive, said he and Fitzpatrick are going to present the legislation to their colleagues and work to get the required support necessary to pass the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The House passed a DHS funding bill back in January that amounted to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/appropriations.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/republicans-appropriations.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/final-fy26-homeland-security-minibus-4-summary.pdf\">$64.4 billion<\/a>, but the measure stalled in the Senate as Democrats demanded a complete overhaul of ICE in the wake of two U.S. citizens being fatally shot by immigration officers.<\/p>\n<p>DHS has been under a shutdown for over a month, with Republicans amping up their attacks on Democrats after Transportation Security Administration agents missed their first paycheck last Friday. The GOP is ramping up messaging on lengthy airport lines and the impact on flights as many TSA agents are reportedly calling out of work.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the shutdown, ICE continues to receive funding thanks to money allocated under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which Republicans have said makes Democrats&rsquo; stance on holding up funding over the immigration agency pointless.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The White House released a five-point offer earlier this week that pledged to codify a number of policy changes, including the expansion of body cameras for immigration agents; limiting enforcement in hospitals and schools; greater oversight of DHS detention facilities; enforcing visible officer identification; and adhering to existing laws that handle the deportation or detention of U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have called this offer unserious. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is attempting to force a vote on legislation that would fund DHS but not ICE or other immigration agencies. They are using a method called a discharge petition, which requires 218 signatures to force a vote on a bill.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A few Republicans have joined Democrats on previous discharge petitions, such as one for a bill to release the Jeffrey Epstein files and another for legislation to extend Obamacare subsidies. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/immigration\/4495994\/democrats-move-to-force-dhs-funding-vote-without-ice-and-border-patrol\/\"><strong>DEMOCRATS MOVE TO FORCE DHS FUNDING VOTE WITHOUT ICE AND BORDER PATROL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeffries said during a press conference on Thursday that there is &ldquo;no reason&rdquo; why certain parts of DHS should remain under a shutdown while ICE is being negotiated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We should be able to get this done today,&rdquo; Jeffries said. &ldquo;All Speaker [Mike] Johnson needs to do is bring the legislation to the floor that will pay TSA agents and reopen the parts of the Department of Homeland Security that have nothing to do with ICE and have nothing to do with Trump&rsquo;s extreme and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >violent mass deportation machine<\/a>. That&rsquo;s all that needs to happen.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bipartisan House duo backs DHS funding with ICE limits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":2581842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-collage-eas6gj25g-1769549797675-e1769549863443.jpg?1769534643&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27924,7492,8364,70100,5123],"class_list":["post-2581841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-centrists","tag-dhs","tag-ice","tag-immigration-policy-2","tag-shutdown"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-collage-eas6gj25g-1769549797675-e1769549863443.jpg?1769534643&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2581841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581845,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581841\/revisions\/2581845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2581842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2581841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2581841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}