{"id":2584781,"date":"2026-03-28T01:04:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-house-dems-buck-jeffries-and-back-reopening-dhs-and-ice\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T01:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T05:06:13","slug":"three-house-dems-buck-jeffries-and-back-reopening-dhs-and-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-house-dems-buck-jeffries-and-back-reopening-dhs-and-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Three House Dems buck Jeffries and back reopening DHS and 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%2Fthree-house-dems-buck-jeffries-and-back-reopening-dhs-and-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=2584781&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>Three House Democrats-Henry Cuellar, Don Davis, and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez-broke with House Minority Leader hakeem Jeffries to back a 60-day funding patch that would fully reopen the Department of homeland Security, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol. The vote, which also included 209 Republicans and rep. Kevin Kiley, gave Speaker Mike Johnson a win amid a weeks-long DHS funding fight tied to immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The House move contrasted with Jeffries\u2019 support for the Senate deal,which Democrats view as a path to end the shutdown but does not include ICE reforms. Gluesenkamp Perez defended the vote as pragmatic: reopen DHS now while pursuing ICE reforms (such as body cameras, ID numbers, and limiting enforcement at hospitals and schools) in exchange for full ICE funding in 2026. The Senate\u2019s deal, designed to overcome the impasse over deportation policies, lacks ICE reforms, and House Republicans rejected it, planning instead to bring the 60-day DHS bill back to the floor after the recess.  <\/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\">Three House Democrats buck Jeffries and back Johnson&rsquo;s 60-day DHS funding patch<\/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<p>Three <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-democrats\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"441\">House Democrats<\/a> broke with Minority Leader <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hakeem-jeffries\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"790\">Hakeem Jeffries<\/a> (D-NY) on Friday, handing Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) a key win on a short-term plan to reopen 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> amid a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >weeks-long shutdown fight<\/a> over immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Reps. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Don Davis (D-NC), and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-WA) voted with 209 House Republicans and independent Rep. Kevin Kiley (CA) for a 60-day funding patch that would fully reopen DHS, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol, which Democrats have sought to restrict.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4507334\/house-passes-eight-week-dhs-deal-to-punt-shutdown-back-to-senate\/\">House passes eight-week DHS deal to punt shutdown back to Senate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4507219\/capitol-hill-bets-prediction-markets-slew-regulations\/\">Capitol Hill bets against prediction markets with slew of new regulations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4507338\/democrat-call-cherfilus-mccormicks-resignation-fraud\/\">Democrats call for Cherfilus-McCormick&#8217;s resignation after fraud finding<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4507334\/house-passes-eight-week-dhs-deal-to-punt-shutdown-back-to-senate\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4507334\/house-passes-eight-week-dhs-deal-to-punt-shutdown-back-to-senate\/\">vote<\/a> shifts pressure back to the Senate, which left Washington for a two-week recess after passing a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bipartisanship\/\">bipartisan<\/a> funding deal that excludes ICE and Border Patrol.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpd-featured-video featured-post-video in-content bridtv\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2543234\" class=\"brid\" style=\"width:1280;height:720;\"> <\/div>\n<div class=\"tpd-featured-video-placeholder\" style=\"position:relative;overflow:hidden;width:100%;padding-top:56.25%;background-color:#000;\">\n<div style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;width:100%;height:100%\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;I believe ICE reform is necessary. I voted for this bill because I believe that it&rsquo;s wrong not to pay people for their work. It&rsquo;s also foolish not to pay people for their work because you think it&rsquo;s going to get you unattainable goals,&rdquo; Gluesenkamp Perez said in a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RepMGP\/status\/2037736452469952621?s=20\">post<\/a> on X. &ldquo;The president has agreed to several reforms to ICE&mdash;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-rejects-senate-dhs-deal-passes-short-term-funding-patch\/\" title=\"... rejects Senate DHS ..., passes short-term ... patch\">including mandatory body cameras<\/a>, ID numbers, ending enforcement at hospitals and schools, and other reforms&mdash;but only in exchange for full 2026 funding of ICE.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The defections came in direct opposition to Hakeem Jeffries, who has publicly endorsed the Senate deal as a victory for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s a bipartisan bill, that if brought to the floor today, can end the 42-day Trump-Republican shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security,&rdquo; Jeffries said. &ldquo;Republicans have concluded that they would rather continue to force TSA agents to work without pay, inconvenience millions of Americans all across the country and create chaos at airports.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Gluesenkamp Perez framed the vote as a pragmatic step to reopen DHS while still pushing for changes to immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The president has agreed to several reforms to ICE&mdash;including mandatory body cameras, ID numbers, ending enforcement at hospitals and schools, and other reforms&mdash;but only in exchange for full 2026 funding of ICE,&rdquo; she said on X. &ldquo;Walking away from DHS funding will not fix anything about ICE and it screws a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/paul-ryan-to-host-fundraiser-for-liz-cheney-amid-backlash-over-her-trump-criticism\/\" title=\"Paul Ryan To Host Fundraiser For Liz Cheney Amid ...lash Over Her Trump Criticism\">hard-working people<\/a>. Ideological purity that empowers a broken system and hurts working people is not what I was sent to Congress to be part of.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Senate&rsquo;s deal was designed to overcome a month-long impasse with Democrats over immigration agencies&rsquo; deportation policies, with Democrats demanding strict reforms and restrictions on ICE in exchange for funding. The Senate bill does not include ICE reforms, but House Democrats were prepared to vote for the deal since funding for deportations would continue to be stalled.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Given the staunch opposition from Senate Democrats, the clearest path to ending this harmful shutdown is for the House to adopt what the Senate just overwhelmingly approved,&rdquo; a Senate GOP aide told the <em>Washington Examiner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yet, the Senate deal was a non-starter for House Republicans. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4507334\/house-passes-eight-week-dhs-deal-to-punt-shutdown-back-to-senate\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/4507334\/house-passes-eight-week-dhs-deal-to-punt-shutdown-back-to-senate\/\">HOUSE PASSES EIGHT-WEEK DHS DEAL TO PUNT SHUTDOWN BACK TO SENATE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Republicans are not going to be any part of any effort to reopen our borders or to stop immigration enforcement,&rdquo; said Johnson. &ldquo;We are going to deport dangerous criminal illegal aliens because it is a basic function of the government. The Democrats fundamentally disagree.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Johnson opted instead to bring the 60-day DHS funding bill to the floor, setting up a renewed standoff with the Senate when lawmakers return from recess.<\/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>3 Dems back Johnson&#8217;s 60-day DHS funding patch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4014,"featured_media":2584782,"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\/03\/image-collage-bcowegf3r-1774671850460.jpg?1774657754&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[7492,33723,8364,70100,50470],"class_list":["post-2584781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-dhs","tag-house-democrats","tag-ice","tag-immigration-policy-2","tag-jeffries-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-collage-bcowegf3r-1774671850460.jpg?1774657754&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584781","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\/4014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2584781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584785,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2584781\/revisions\/2584785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2584782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2584781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2584781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2584781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}