{"id":2584313,"date":"2026-03-27T02:56:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-sends-dhs-bill-to-the-house-without-ice-funding\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T02:57:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:57:46","slug":"senate-sends-dhs-bill-to-the-house-without-ice-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-sends-dhs-bill-to-the-house-without-ice-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate sends DHS bill to the House without ICE funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fsenate-sends-dhs-bill-to-the-house-without-ice-funding%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=2584313&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>The Senate approved a Department of Homeland Security <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-donald-trump-job-approval-shifts-to-52-percent\/\" title=\"Poll: Donald Trump Job Approval Shifts to 52 Percent\">funding bill<\/a> that pays for the Coast Guard, TSA, and other subagencies but excludes immigration enforcement (ICE). The chamber sent the measure to the House,while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-backs-off-15-minimum-wage-as-virus-relief-plan-takes-shape\/\" title=\"Biden Backs Off  Minimum Wage As Virus Relief Plan Takes Shape\">separate legislation<\/a> to reopen ICE and parts of CBP was blocked by Democrats. Republicans plan to fund those agencies later through reconciliation. The move comes after weeks of negotiations on DHS reform following controversial arrests, and with the White House offering reforms to professionalize ICE. Democrats say the bill shows Republicans backing funding without the promised ICE concessions, while republicans accuse Democrats of blocking reforms. In the meantime, President Trump indicated he would sign an executive order to pay TSA workers amid staffing shortages. The House must still act, and Republicans have suggested reconciliation could still be used to advance related funding and policy goals.  <\/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\">Senate sends DHS bill to the House without ICE funding<\/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_2544192\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The Senate took the first step toward reopening the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/department-of-homeland-security\/\">Department of Homeland Security<\/a> on Friday, approving legislation that funds all of the agency except its most controversial function: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/immigration\/\">immigration<\/a> enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The Coast Guard, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tsa\/\">Transportation Security Administration<\/a>, and a host of other subagencies under DHS will be funded under a bill the Senate passed overnight via voice vote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4505938\/doj-investigate-maine-and-california-prisons\/\">DOJ to investigate Maine and California over constitutionality of &#8216;housing men in women&#8217;s prisons&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/4505667\/hezbollah-israel-tank-fpv-drone-ukraine\/\">Hezbollah hits Israeli tank with FPV drone for first time in tactic popularized in Ukraine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4505820\/judge-pentagon-anthropic-ai-ruling\/\">Judge blocks Pentagon&#8217;s punitive measures against &#8216;supply chain risk&#8217; Anthropic<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Separate legislation that would have reopened <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ice\/\">Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a> and parts of Customs and Border Protection was blocked by Democrats. Republicans plan to fund those two departments at a later date using <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4502479\/senate-gop-down-payment-save-america-act-party-line-bill\/\">reconciliation<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-weighs-whether-to-save-obamacare-tax-credits-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"... GOP weighs whether to save Obamacare tax credits - Washington Examiner\">party-line budget process<\/a> that does not require Democratic votes.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome amounts to lawmakers walking away from <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4503493\/john-thune-rejects-new-dhs-funding-offer-democrats-not-even-close\/\">weeks of negotiations<\/a> over how to reform DHS after the death of two Minneapolis protesters at the hands of federal immigration agents. It also represents a pressure release valve after more than 40 days of congressional gridlock.<\/p>\n<p>The House must still pass the bill, but Republicans have already begun to ease the worst effects of the shutdown. Hours earlier, President Donald Trump announced that he would <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4505730\/trump-order-pay-tsa-mullin-dhs-shutdown\/\">sign an executive order<\/a> to pay TSA workers amid chronic staffing shortages at airports across the country.<\/p>\n<p>In one sense, Democrats got what they wanted Friday on DHS funding. For more than a month, Republicans resisted their efforts to reopen the agency in a piecemeal fashion, but ended up doing exactly that after negotiations sputtered out.<\/p>\n<p>But Democrats also lost any leverage to extract concessions from Republicans, who spent weeks inching toward their demands on ICE &mdash; only to bring to the floor legislation that had none of them.<\/p>\n<p>By mid-March, the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4494854\/white-house-dhs-government-shutdown-ice-self-identify\/\">White House was offering<\/a> to require visible identification for officers, increased congressional oversight of detention facilities, and other reforms meant to professionalize ICE operations.<\/p>\n<p>Negotiations began to fall apart this week, however, after Republicans took most of those concessions off the table in exchange for leaving a portion of ICE, specifically its removal operations, unfunded.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats then tried to revive the demands and others that Republicans said were nonstarters.<\/p>\n<p>In a floor speech, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) accused Democrats of refusing to &ldquo;take yes for an answer.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The White House made offer after offer, putting forward a robust list of additional reforms, and Democrats just kept moving the goal posts,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Democrats would continue to &ldquo;fight&rdquo; for those changes and praised his caucus for holding &ldquo;firm in our opposition that&nbsp;Donald Trump&rsquo;s rogue and deadly militia should not get more funding without serious reforms.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;m very proud of our Democratic caucus. Throughout it all, Senate Democrats stood united &mdash; no wavering, no backing down. We held the line,&rdquo; Schumer added.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was noncommittal Thursday when asked if House Republicans would move a funding bill that excludes money for ICE. But he told reporters that reconciliation was still an option in the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >event negotiations faltered<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/4502479\/senate-gop-down-payment-save-america-act-party-line-bill\/\"><strong>SENATE GOP TO MAKE &lsquo;DOWN PAYMENT&rsquo; ON SAVE AMERICA ACT WITH PARTY-LINE BILL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, ICE is staying afloat with money Republicans previously set aside in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The administration has also used discretionary funds to pay the Coast Guard during the shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\/status\/2037324962298552374?s=20\">said<\/a> Thursday that he would move &ldquo;quickly and efficiently&rdquo; to help usher another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-senators-threaten-to-sink-bipartisan-infrastructure-plan-after-bidens-ultimatum\/\" title=\"Republican Senators Threaten To Sink Bipartisan Infrastructure Plan After Biden\u2019s Ultimatum\">party-line bill<\/a> through the Senate. In addition to ICE funding, Republicans are expected to use reconciliation to pass money for national defense and some version of Trump&rsquo;s election legislation, the SAVE America Act.<\/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>Senate funds DHS, withholds ICE; sends bill to House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2651,"featured_media":2584314,"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\/02\/AP26041754953283_0888d5.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[7492,6513,3653,8364,3740],"class_list":["post-2584313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-dhs","tag-funding","tag-house","tag-ice","tag-senate"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP26041754953283_0888d5.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584313","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\/2651"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2584313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584317,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584313\/revisions\/2584317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2584314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2584313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2584313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2584313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}