The Senate early Friday reached a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which includes funds for the Transportation Security Administration and most other agencies, but not the immigration operations at the heart of the budget impasse.

The Senate voted to reopen the Department of Homeland Security for all except immigration enforcement and deportation. It still must pass the House.

A day after Republicans offered to remove money for ICE enforcement from a Department of Homeland Security funding bill, Democrats insisted that the deal must include curbs on federal agents.

The ball is in the House’s court on ending the 42-day shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) after the Senate in the wee hours of Friday morning agreed to a proposal that funds all but two immigration agencies.

By Richard Cowan, Nolan D. McCaskill and David Shepardson March 27 (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday rejected a bipartisan Senate compromise to end a six-week partial government shutdown,

The deal, which the Senate approved unanimously early in the morning without a roll call, would fund much of the Department of Homeland Security, except the immigration enforcement operations that have been central to the standoff.

The Senate early Friday reached a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which includes funds for the Transportation Security Administration and most other agencies, but not the immigration operations at the heart of the budget impasse.

Trump said he will sign an order to immediately pay TSA workers as travel chaos intensifies, but it remains unclear if he has the authority to do so.

The Justice Department has sought voter data from states. It now says it plans to share that data with the Department of Homeland Security, to run it through a controversial citizenship check tool.

DHS is citing a procedure introduced in the 2023 Fiscal Responsibility Act, which allows one agency to adopt another's exceptions.