Senate unanimously moves to fund most of DHS, except ICE and border patrol, in rare overnight session

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

Updated Mar 27, 2026, 3:12 AM ET
PUBLISHED Mar 27, 2026, 2:44 AM ET


The Senate unanimously moved to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and part of Customs and Border Protection, in a rare overnight session. The agreement would fund other DHS components, such as the Transportation Security Administration and US Coast Guard, but the House will still need to act before funded agencies within the department can reopen.

After negotiations fell apart earlier Thursday evening, senators focused on moving the funding they were able to agree on by unanimous consent. On his way to the floor in the wee hours of the morning on Friday, Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters, “We’re gonna execute on as much as DHS as we can tonight, and then we’ll fund the rest of it later.”

The standoff over funding for DHS has withheld pay for thousands of TSA agents and other DHS workers, causing major travel delays and scores of missed flights nationwide. Frustration on Capitol Hill hit new levels this week, and senators pushed to end the impasse before a scheduled two-week recess.

Pressed on what specifically would be funded, Thune replied, “I think it’ll be everything but ICE and CBP today. So, we’ll have to do the rest of that,” though he noted that, “I think customs, they cleared customs,” but not border patrol.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/27/politics/senate-agreement-dhs-funding

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It would still have to go to the House and pass there, so it's going to be in Mikie's court, before it possibly gets "rejected" by 45 with his idiotic threats about allowing no bills unless SAVE is passed. Of course he could do a TACO on that.

[littlemissmartypants]

1. And with that, I'm going to bed.

Sweet dreams to anyone who reads this. ♥️

[SunSeeker]

2. Turns out Trump could have been paying TSA all along, regardless.

Link to tweet

[Martin68]

11. Let's see what the House does...

[nilram]

3. Saving face for Trump for the ordinary joe on the street, imo.

If Trump went through with executing the funding it would be super-obvious.

[ToxMarz]

4. Trump won't veto, he doesn't want his stubbly little fingerprints on this

He'll just blame it on the auto pen, it's Biden's fault

[BumRushDaShow]

5. He can let it become law without his signature

since Congress is not adjourning but going into a spring recess and could return at any time during the 10 day period associated with that auto-approve, in case there is actually a veto.

[riversedge]

6. ....."excluding additional funding for ICE and Border Patrol, ".....

MeidasTouch‬
‪@meidastouch.com‬
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NEWS: The U.S. Senate has advanced a deal to fund most of DHS for the rest of the fiscal year, excluding additional funding for ICE and Border Patrol, approved by unanimous voice vote just after 2am.

The measure now heads to the House for a vote as early as later today.

NEWS: The U.S. Senate has advanced a deal to fund most of DHS for the rest of the fiscal year, excluding additional funding for ICE and Border Patrol, approved by unanimous voice vote just after 2am.

The measure now heads to the House for a vote as early as later today.

— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2026-03-27T08:44:42.783Z

Totally sounding like the bill Senator Kennedy and Cruz accepted, and took to the WH, and Trump said no-do not deal with the Democrats. Followed by Trump stating he was gonna do legislation to fund TSA… So it’s OK if Trump suggested it? That was a wasted week! The cruelty is the point.

— Deb (@debfly.bsky.social) 2026-03-27T08:56:11.321Z

[Ray Bruns]

7. They must have found out that the airlines were making members of Congress stand in line with their constituents.

Can’t have that, can we?

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Especially right before their 2-week recess when they are leaving D.C.

[barbtries]

10. i'm sure they're deeply disturbed by it.

motherfuckers. whatever it takes.

[Rhiannon12866]

8. BREAKING: Senate passes partial funding bill for DHS - MS NOW

After 42 days of infighting on Capitol Hill and growing security lines at airports, the Senate early Friday morning approved a bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, the first step in ending the shutdown at the sprawling agency. - Aired on 03/27/2026.

[ChicagoTeamster]

13. Did it pass with a veto proof majority?

[FakeNoose]

14. The Senate is "unanimous" but it still must pass the House

It's time for phone calls and emails to our Representatives ....

[ChicagoTeamster]

15. I'm on that. I've got their email pages saved as favorites. But I'm sure IL Dem Reps will vote to pass.

119th Congress House Composition (Approx. March 2026)

Republicans: 217
Democrats: 214
Vacancies: 3

WIth so many retirements and possible flips this year the Republicans would be stupid to vote against it

[Bluetus]

12. The big quetion is reconciliation

The Predator Party has been threatening to pass everything but ICE (which Dems agreed to many weeks ago), and then take ICE through reconciliation. The implication is that would allow the Guardians of Predators to fund ICE without making ANY of the reforms that Dems have demanded.

The question is, "If that was so easy, then why didn't the Epstein Club do that already?" There was nothing for them to gain by creating all this chaos at the airports.

I have seen very little on this. I must surmise that the Child Rapist Enablers party doesn't really believe they can use reconciliation rules.

Does anybody have any recent information on this?

[MichMan]

16. They did last year

ICE got $180 billion in the BBB

[BumRushDaShow]

17. "Reconciliation" is a BUDGET vehicle, not a policy one, and to do "reconciliation", there are 3 types

REVENUE (taxes)
DEBT (debt ceiling)
SPENDING

This mechanism can only be used ONCE in a fiscal year - either as a standalone of one type or a combo of two or all three.

It has to be "budget neutral" and I would wonder since they already got BILLIONS in the Brutal Butcher Bill, whether anything more would be "budget neutral" when scored, or would in fact, increase the deficit (given they did the "tax breaks for billionaires" via reconciliation last year as part of the BBB).

And then the parliamentarian needs to approve (she struck all kinds of nonsense out of the BBB).

[24601]

18. Can we get this straight? The Senate passed the DHS appropriation without any additional funding for ICE and CBP.

The operative phrase is "additional funding." The Senate bill included no policy changes WRT ICE or CBP operations. However, since last year's BBBA funded them for several years, the Senate bill funded the rest of DHS with no ICE/CBP concessions, such as Judicial [Article III] Warrants, Masks, or time-and-place restrictions.

So, aside from the status quo, what did we achieve from our Senators?

[Akakoji]

21. Either way

Let the GOP destroy each other’s careers. I pray none of them have any incidents that render them further dysfunctional.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. The House Free Dumb caucus aint taking it well

House GOP erupts over Senate’s overnight move to fund pieces of DHS

Speaker Mike Johnson does not currently have the House votes to approve the Senate’s early morning funding measure to fund large swaths of the Department of Homeland Security.

But the House Republican leader and his team are so furious about the bill that they do not want to put it to a vote on the floor. At issue, multiple GOP sources say, is that Senate Republicans did not include money for federal immigration enforcement or border patrol in the funding bill that would reopen the remainder of the department.

“The one thing I can tell you is that there is a common disgust from our leadership team and from our members about what they did over in the Senate, and it really was not appropriate,” House Majority Whip Tom Emmer said Friday morning.

Enraged House conservatives, meanwhile, publicly blasted the bill they said Senate Majority Leader John Thune jammed through his chamber in the middle of the night, with no roll call vote or the chance to debate it. And some in the House GOP leadership team are seriously contemplating whether to reject the measure altogether and put forward their own proposal, the sources said – though no decisions have yet been made.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/house-gop-erupts-over-senate-164015426.html

It would pas if the House voted on it. They just wouldn't have a GOP majority voting yes.

[Akakoji]

20. That aged incredibly badly

And another GOP rep announced retirement. Let’s not assume any district or state is off limits?