House passes short-term DHS funding bill
· Axios
The House on Friday night passed a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security until May 22.
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Why it matters: House GOP leaders' decision not to act on a Senate-passed plan has stoked tensions between House and Senate Republicans and raised questions about the path forward for ending the DHS shutdown, now well into its second month.
- The Senate's plan would fund DHS through Sept. 30, but without money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.
- Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) instead advanced an eight-week stopgap that fully funds DHS, including ICE and CBP.
- The vote was 213-203, with three House Democrats joining all Republicans in support.
- Democratic Reps. Don Davis (N.C.), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez ( Wash.) and Henry Cuellar (Texas) voted yes.
Catch up quick: The Senate voted in the early hours of Friday morning to pass a bill that would reopen all of the Department of Homeland Security, excluding funding for ICE and CBP.
- Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) had signaled that Republicans plan to address those agencies later through reconciliation, with only GOP votes.
- Johnson called the Senate-passed bill a "joke," noting the lack of border security funding.
- Senate Democrats have already made clear they will oppose the House's short-term DHS funding bill.
What's next: The Senate, which just left for a two-week recess, will have to determine whether its members will return to Washington and take up the House-passed bill.