Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02)
WASHINGTON — Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) voted tonight against a 60-day Continuing Resolution to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and urged House leadership to call a vote on the bipartisan, full-year appropriation approved earlier this week by the Senate.
“For more than a month, the DHS shutdown has caused chaos at airports as TSA agents have gone without pay, while our Coast Guard and emergency agencies are undermined without funding from Congress,”Golden said.“I have voted for every bill to fund DHS since before the shutdown began, and I remain open to any serious proposal with a real path toward becoming law. I see no reason to believe this 60-day stopgap will pass the Senate anytime soon, so I could not support the House GOP’s effort to keep kicking the can down the road. The Senate passed a bipartisan compromise that ensures funding for every agency in DHS for the full fiscal year. It’s time for House Republicans to take the deal.”
The Senate bill would fund all of DHS except for immigration agencies, which are already funded through the GOP’sOne Big Beautiful Bill Act.Earlier this week, Golden signed a discharge petition to force a vote on a similar bill in the House of Representatives.
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Sharice Davids (KS-3)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Representative Sharice Davids released the below statement after U.S. House Republican leadership refused to vote on a bipartisan funding deal — already passed by the Senate — to support the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Coast Guard, and other critical programs. This deal, which ensures federal workers are paid, does not include immigration-related agencies, as funding for those was already approved last year under a separate partisan budget.
Instead, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, who called the bipartisan deal a “joke,” pushed a partisan funding package with little chance of becoming law. Davids is urging House leaders to pass the bipartisan agreement immediately and continue negotiations on comprehensive, bipartisan immigration enforcement reform.
“Across Kansas and the country, federal workers go without pay and travelers wait in long TSA lines all because House Republican politicians are putting politics ahead of people’s livelihoods,” said Davids. “I support the bipartisan agreement passed in the Senate to fund TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard — a solution I’ve been pushing for weeks to end this partial shutdown. Yet, once again, politics is being put ahead of people’s livelihoods, which is exactly why Kansans are so fed up with the federal government. I won’t give up. We must reach a bipartisan agreement to get federal workers paid and also continue negotiating real, bipartisan immigration reforms that respect the law and protect every Kansan’s safety and security.”
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07)
Discharge Petition Reaches 218 Signatures Needed to Move Forward
WASHINGTON – On Friday, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley’s (MA-07) discharge petition to force a House vote on extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti successfully met the 218-signature threshold to move forward with bipartisan support. The motion, which would require the Trump Administration to extend TPS for Haiti for three years, is set to be voted on within the coming weeks.
“The success of this discharge petition is a testament to our collective organizing and the strength of our broad, diverse movement to affirm the humanity, dignity, and safety of our Haitian siblings,” said Congresswoman Pressley. “Throughout the nation, Haitians are parents, workers, caregivers, faith leaders, business owners, and children who are deeply rooted in our communities, essential to our economy, and are shamefully at risk of being deported to an island grappling with a devastating humanitarian crisis. Today we are a critical step closer to saving lives and delivering the protections they deserve. The House must vote on this and I urge all of my colleagues to strongly support.”
Congresswoman Pressley serves as Co-Chair for the House Haiti Caucus and represents one of the largest Haitian diaspora communities in the country. She has stood in vigorous defense for Haitian communities and all immigrant neighbors amid Trump and ICE’s attacks against immigrant communities.
Congresswoman Pressley has been a leading voice in Congress pushing back against Trump’s threats to terminate Temporary Protected Status for Haitians.
In February 2026, Rep. Pressley applauded a federal judge’s ruling to temporarily block Trump’s move to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians. Ending TPS for Haitians would leave over 350,000 Haitian nationals at risk of deportation, many of whom reside in the Massachusetts 7th congressional district.
In January 2026, Congresswoman Pressley, alongside Senator Markey, held a field hearing on the importance of extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti. She documented this testimony in the legislative record. Footage from the hearing is available here and photos here.
In January 2026, Rep. Pressley also organized a press conference in D.C. in January to sound the alarm on the harm of terminating TPS for Haiti on seniors and the U.S. care economy.
On June 28, 2025, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) issued the following statement condemning the Trump Administration’s abominable termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti effective September 2nd, 2025.
On June 5, 2025, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) issued the following statement on Donald Trump’s executive order that bans citizens of 12 countries, including Haiti, from traveling to the United States, and places partial restrictions on citizens of seven more nations.
On March 18, 2025, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (NY-09), and Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) led 62 of their colleagues in the House and 23 of their colleagues in the Senate in a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demanding the Trump Administration redesignate and extend Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti, which the administration recently canceled on questionable legal authority:
On February 20, 2025, Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), Yvette Clarke (NY-12), and Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20) issued the following statement condemning the Trump Administration’s decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti.
On April 23, 2024, Rep. Pressley, alongside Co-Chairs Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) and Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20), led a group of 50 lawmakers urging the Biden Administration to redesignate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), pause on deportations back to Haiti, extend humanitarian parole to any Haitians currently detained in Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s detention centers, end detention of Haitian migrants intercepted at sea, and provide additional humanitarian assistance for Haiti.
On April 18, 2024, Rep. Pressley and Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs led a letter to House Ways and Means Committee leadership emphasizing support for the early renewal of the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement (HOPE) and the Haiti Economic Lift Program (HELP) Acts, commonly known as HOPE/HELP.
On April 12, 2024, Rep. Pressley joined Haitian-led activists, organizations, and a directly impacted person in Haiti for a press call urging federal action to address the worsening humanitarian crisis in Haiti.
On March 27, 2024, Rep. Pressley joined Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and her colleagues on the Massachusetts congressional delegation in urging the Biden Administration to expedite visa processing for Haitians, particularly for relatives of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents.
On March 12, 2024, Rep. Pressley and Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Cherfilus McCormick and Yvette Clarke issued a statement on the resignation of Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
On March 6, 2024, Rep. Pressley issued a statement on the recent jailbreak and State of Emergency in Haiti.
On December 8, 2023, Rep. Pressley and Congresswoman Yvette Clarke urged the U.S. Department of State to withdraw U.S. support for an armed foreign intervention in Haiti and encourage negotiations for a Haitian-led democratic political transition.
On December 6, 2022, Rep. Pressley issued a statement applauding the Biden Administration’s extension and re-designation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haiti.
On December 1, 2022, Rep. Pressley, Rep. Cori Bush, and Rep. Mondaire Jones led 14 of their colleagues on a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas urging the Department to extend and redesignate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status (TPS).
On August 17, 2022, Rep. Pressley, along with Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Val Demings, Yvette Clarke, and Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20), called on President Biden to appoint a new Special Envoy to Haiti, a position that has remained unfilled since September 2021.
On May 31, 2022, Rep. Pressley and Reverend Dieufort Fleurissaint, chair of Haitian Americans United, published an op-ed in the Bay State Banner in which they called on the Biden administration to withdraw support for de facto ruler of Haiti, Ariel Henry, and instead support an inclusive, civil society-led process to restore stability and democracy on the island.
On May 26, 2022, Rep. Pressley, along with with Representatives Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), Andy Levin (MI-09), Jim McGovern (MA-02), and Frederica Wilson (FL-24), led a letter to United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Power urging her to act to ensure food security in Haiti.
In February 2022, Reps. Pressley, Judy Chu (CA-27), and Nydia Velázquez (NY-07) led 33 other House Democrats on a letter to CDC Director Walensky demanding answers about the agency’s justification for treating asylum seekers as a unique public health threat, how these expulsions are being coordinated, how asylum seekers being returned to dangerous situations are being cared for, and more. Days later, Rep. Pressley once again called on the Biden Administration to reverse the Title 42 Order and other anti-Black immigration policies.
On March 16, 2022, Rep. Pressley and Rep. Mondaire Jones called on Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky to fully end Title 42, cease deportations of people to Haiti and affirm their legal and fundamental human right to seek asylum.
On February 16, 2022, Rep. Pressley joined Congresswoman Cori Bush (MO-01), Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), and 100 House and Senate colleagues in urging President Biden to reverse inhumane immigration policies – such as Title 42, originally introduced under the Trump Administration – that continue to disproportionately harm Black migrants.
On February 14, 2022, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07), alongside Representatives Judy Chu (CA-27) and Nydia Velázquez (NY-07), led 33 other House Democrats on a letter to Rochelle Walensky, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, demanding answers about the agency’s justification for treating asylum seekers as a unique public health threat, how these expulsions are being coordinated, how asylum seekers being returned to dangerous situations are being cared for, and more.
In April 2022, she joined her colleagues at a press conference reaffirming her support for President Biden’s decision to end Title 42. Full video of her remarks at the press conference is available here. Rep. Pressley applauded the Biden Administration’s end of Title 42 in a statement in April 2022.
In September 2022, Rep. Pressley and Rep. Velázquez led 54 of their colleagues on a letter calling on the Biden Administration to immediately halt deportations to Haiti and provide humanitarian parole protections for those seeking asylum. The lawmakers’ letter followed the Administration’s resumption of deportation flights to Haiti as thousands of Haitian migrants continue to await an opportunity to make an asylum claim at the border.
In September 2022, Rep. Pressley joined her colleagues on the House Oversight Committee in demanding answers regarding the inhumane treatment of migrants in Del Rio, Texas, by Border Patrol agents on horseback and pushing to Biden Administration to end the ongoing use and weaponization of Title 42.
On July 7, 2022, Rep. Pressley and Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Andy Levin (MI-09), Val Demings (FL-10) and Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) released a statement marking the one-year anniversary of the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.
On November 21, 2021, Rep. Pressley and Senator Elizabeth Warren led the Massachusetts congressional delegation on a letter to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) calling on them to coordinate with the government agencies of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to assist newly arrived families from Haiti.
On October 18, 2021, Rep. Pressley, and Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Val Demings (FL-10), Yvette Clarke (NY-09), and Andy Levin (MI-09) issued a statement following the kidnapping of American and Canadian missionaries in Haiti.
On October 18, 2021, Rep. Pressley issued a statement on the civil rights complaint filed by Haitian families demanding a federal investigation into the heinous actions perpetrated by federal officials at the border.
On October 22, 2021, Rep. Pressley, along with Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), and Reps. Rashida Tlaib (MI-13), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14), and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), sent a letter to Troy A. Miller, the Acting Administrator of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), demanding a briefing and answers regarding press reports of the inhumane treatment of migrants in Del Rio, Texas, by Border Patrol agents on horseback.
On September 17, 2021, Rep. Pressley and Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez (NY-07) led 52 of their colleagues calling on the Biden Administration to immediately halt deportations to Haiti and take urgent action to address the concerns of the Haitian Diaspora after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti.
On August 14, 2021, Rep. Pressley Yvette Clarke (NY-09), Andy Levin (MI-09) and Val Demings (FL-10) and Mondaire Jones (NY-17) released a statement regarding the recent earthquake in Haiti.
On July 14, 2021, Rep. Pressley and Haiti Caucus Co-Chairs Reps. Yvette Clarke (NY-09), Andy Levin (MI-09) and Val Demings (FL-10) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas calling on him to take a series of steps to support the Haitian diaspora amid ongoing political turmoil in Haiti.
In July 2021, the Reps. Pressley, Clarke, Demings and Levin issued a statement condemning the assassination of President Moïse and calling for swift and decisive action to bring political stability and peace to Haiti and the Haitian people.
In May 2021, on Haitian Flag Day, Reps. Pressley, Levin, Clarke and Demings announced the formation of the House Haiti Caucus, a Congressional caucus dedicated to pursuing a just foreign policy that puts the needs and aspirations of the Haitian people first.
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (7th District of Washington)
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, released the following statement after voting NO on House Republicans’ Department of Homeland Security (DHS) continuing resolution.
“I have been clear since the start of the appropriations process: I will not vote to give Trump’s ICE or CBP another cent without major reforms. ICE and CBP agents have killed American citizens on the streets, terrorized communities, and forever traumatized families and children. Republicans in the House and Senate continue to refuse to implement any meaningful reforms — it appears they want ICE and CBP to continue their lawless reign of terror against American families and communities.
“In the face of this Republican refusal, Democrats have called for weeks to pass funding for everything except ICE and CBP so that TSA agents, FEMA, and the Coast Guard, among other agencies, can get funded. Finally, Senate Republicans saw the light and did just that last night in a unanimous consent vote. However, House Republicans know just how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and refused to pass the unanimous Senate bill, instead passing a ridiculous proposal to kick the can down the road for another 60 days with a bill that has absolutely no hope of passing the Senate. Late on a Friday night, Republicans are using procedural tricks to pass their proposal that stalls any progress and leaves TSA unfunded, without any debate before the American people. This will only extend this crisis and create yet more chaos and cruelty for the American people.
“It is time for House Republicans to get to work and bring the Senate bill to a vote so we can pass it and fund TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard.”
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congresswoman Robin Kelly IL
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (IL-02) condemned the Republican-passed stopgap bill that will fund the Department of Homeland Security at current levels for 60 days. The bill also funds U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. The 60-day continuing resolution is not expected to pass in the U.S. Senate, which unanimously passed a different DHS funding bill yesterday.
“Speaker Johnson and House Republicans would rather pass a 60-day band-aid—which is dead on arrival in the Senate—and prolong this DHS shutdown as TSA workers go unpaid for over 40 days,” said Rep. Kelly. “They want to give more money to the Gestapo agents who have terrorized our communities, killed US citizens, and torn apart families. That’s simply not right. Democrats have a solution on the table right now: pay TSA and FEMA workers, end the chaos at airports, and rein in ICE and CBP.”
Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, after voting for a 60-day continuing resolution to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and to pay TSA employees, U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA) issued the following statement:
“Today, House Republicans voted once again to stand with TSA agents, fund the Department of Homeland Security, and restore order at our Nation’s airports,” said Rep. Kelly. “During a time of heightened global tensions — and with increasingly long lines and delays at our Nation’s airports, including Pittsburgh International Airport — it’s long past time for Senate Democrats to join congressional Republicans to fund DHS. They are shamefully playing games with our national security and our daily lives.”
BACKGROUND
Today’s vote by Rep. Kelly and House Republicans is the fourth vote to fund the Department of Homeland Security and to end the 42-day shutdown.
A 60-vote majority is needed to advance a funding bill in the Senate, meaning Senate Democrats must join Republicans to fund DHS.
Democrats have prolonged the shutdown by refusing to vote for funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (8th District of New York)
Today, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries spoke on the House Floor against House Republicans’ DHS funding bill that refuses to hold ICE accountable and subjects Americans to increasingly more airport chaos.
LEADER JEFFRIES: I rise today in strong opposition to this partisan political stunt that Republicans have brought to the Floor, masquerading as legitimate legislation. There’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. 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. Why is this happening? It’s because Republicans have chosen to continue to authorize spending billions of taxpayer dollars to brutalize or kill American citizens like Renee Nicole Good or Alex Pretti or to violently target law-abiding immigrant families.
Mr. Speaker, we believe that immigration enforcement in this country should be fair, just and humane. That’s not what’s happening right now. ICE is out of control. The American people know it, which is why changes need to be made that are bold, meaningful, dramatic, transformational and common sense at the same period of time. Instead, Republicans have chosen to double and triple down on their extremism, on their brutality and on their violence that has been unleashed on everyday Americans all across the country.
Now, there’s a bipartisan bill sent over from the Senate. Every single Senate Democrat, every single Senate Republican supported that legislation. It would reopen the TSA, reopen FEMA, reopen the Coast Guard, reopen the ability for our cybersecurity professionals to do their job, while at the same time allowing for discussions—tough negotiations—to continue. On one side of that negotiations are my Republican colleagues who want to continue to spend taxpayer dollars to brutalize and kill American citizens, unleashing masked, untrained ICE agents, in some cases storming homes of everyday Americans, ripping them out of their beds in the middle of the night, ripping children away from their families, detaining people in inhumane conditions, refusing to allow state and local authorities to investigate ICE violence and brutality in ways that will be designed to bring about accountability.
This debate, at the end of the day, is really all about: Do you want to compel ICE to conduct themselves like every other cop, police officer or law enforcement agency in the country? Or do you want to continue to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to violently target American citizens and law abiding immigrant families? We choose the American way—fair, just and humane. Now, many of my Republican colleagues have come to the Floor to suggest that this legislation is about defunding ICE. That’s a stone cold lie. Because we know that in the Republican One Big Ugly Bill, which ripped away Medicaid from 14 million Americans, the largest cut—almost a trillion dollars—to Medicaid in American history, at the same period of time, extremist Republicans in their One Big Ugly Bill enacted a $186 billion cut to nutritional assistance—literally ripped food from the mouths of hungry children, seniors and veterans.
And why did Republicans do that in their One Big Ugly Bill? In part, to provide their billionaire donors with massive tax breaks that they did not need and did not deserve. And, at the same period of time, give the Department of Homeland Security $191 billion—watch this—$75 billion in a slush fund to ICE. Is that defunding? No. The One Big Ugly Bill defunded Medicaid. It defunded nutritional assistance for everyday Americans. It defunded some affordable housing programs. It defunded the ability for everyday Americans who are struggling under Republican policies to actually afford their utility bills. That was the defunding that has taken place in this chamber during this Congress.
Defunding ICE? How do you stand up here as Republicans and say that to the American people with a straight face when you gave ICE a $75 billion slush fund and then turned around and gave CBP a $65 billion slush fund in the same One Big Ugly Bill? The reality is that we can end this shutdown—this 42-day extreme Trump-Republican shutdown—today if Republicans had the courage and the patriotism to actually bring a bipartisan Senate-passed bill to the Floor, which would pass this chamber with Democratic and Republican votes, maybe not the extremists, but it would pass with Democratic and Republican votes.
Mike Johnson has chosen to say no to a bipartisan bill so he could say yes to continuing to force TSA agents to work without pay. Mike Johnson has said no to a bipartisan bill so he can say yes to continuing to inconvenience millions of the American people across the country. Mike Johnson has said no to a bipartisan bill so House Republicans could say yes to chaos at airports all across the country. Mike Johnson has said no to a bipartisan bill so House Republicans can continue to say yes to ICE brutality. Mike Johnson has said no to a bipartisan Senate-passed bill so House Republican could continue to say yes to ICE violence. Mike Johnson has said no to a bipartisan Senate-passed bill so House Republicans could continue to say yes to the corruption that we’ve seen at the Department of Homeland Security. Mike Johnson has said no to a bipartisan Senate-passed bill that would reopen the Department of Homeland Security so House Republicans could say yes to the Freedom Caucus, which is clearly driving the train here.
And it was amazing to me that, at the Rules Committee, you had some Republican Members try to lecture America about Article I and separate and co-equal branches of government. Really? You want to talk about the House and the Senate? I’m not interested in that debate. Let’s talk about the difference between Article I and Article II. Because the framers of this Constitution designed the Article I branch, the Congress, to be the first amongst equals. That’s not how House Republicans have been acting from the very beginning of this Congress.
Instead, House Republicans running around this town acting like nothing more than a reckless rubber stamp to Donald Trump’s extreme agenda. And that’s what’s happening right now. Because what House Republicans want to do is to continue to fund Donald Trump’s violent extreme mass deportation machine that has resulted in the death of at least three American citizens. Lecture us about Article I and Article II. You’ve got to be kidding. And so, Mr. Speaker, I’m going to continue to speak truth to power on this Floor as a duly elected Member. And the more you stand, the longer I’ll speak. And so, our view is very clear. We can reopen this government today if you bring to the House Floor a bipartisan Senate-passed bill today because as Democrats, we believe that immigration enforcement in this country should be fair, it should be just and it should be humane.
Donald Trump promised to target violent felons who are here illegally. That’s what Republicans promised. You’ve broken your word. It’s American citizens and law-abiding immigrant families who are being targeted violently by untrained and masked ICE agents. Our position is pretty clear. Let’s pay TSA. Let’s fund FEMA. Let’s fund the Coast Guard. Let’s fund our cybersecurity professionals. Stop holding the American people hostage to an extreme right-wing agenda. Taxpayer dollars should be spent to make life more affordable for the American people.
That’s what Democrats will continue to focus on in an environment where life has become more expensive under the extreme policies that President Trump and House Republicans continue to jam down the throats of the American people. The Trump tariffs, increasing costs on everyday Americans by millions of dollars in totality, thousands of dollars per year for everyday Americans as a family. House Republicans have refused, Senate Republicans refused, Donald Trump refused to do anything to make life more affordable. Housing costs are out of control. Healthcare costs are out of control. Grocery bills are out of control. Gas prices are out of control because Republicans have decided to get us into a reckless war of choice in the Middle East, spending billions of dollars to drop bombs in Iran.
Mr. Speaker, we’re here dealing with a partisan spending bill that the Senate has already indicated is dead on arrival. And so Republicans have taken the decision to own this shutdown decisively. There is no doubt—as Ranking Member Jim McGovern stated earlier—there is no doubt as to why we are still facing a shutdown that is inflicting pain and chaos and uncertainty on the American people.
So I rise in strong opposition to this so-called spending bill—dead on arrival—that will do nothing, accomplish nothing other than continuing the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security and the chaos that Republicans have unleashed in airports all across America. House Democrats are going to continue to fight for what is right. We’re going to continue to fight to lower the high cost of living, fix our broken healthcare system, clean up corruption, stop this reckless war of choice in the Middle East, get ICE under control, pay TSA, end the chaos at these airports and end this national nightmare that Donald Trump and Republicans are inflicting upon the American people.
Vote no against this partisan political stunt. Let’s say yes instead to a bipartisan bill that would reopen the Department of Homeland Security, end the chaos at airports and stop the inconvenience of the American people.
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Bill Foster (11th District of Illinois)
Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Bill Foster (D-IL) issued the following statement:
“As I have said throughout this DHS shutdown, I will vote NO on any funding for ICE that does not include serious reforms.
“After Operation Midway Blitz and the killing of two Americans in Minneapolis, it is clear that ICE is poorly trained and unaccountable. Republicans have had every opportunity to govern rationally by funding DHS while reining in ICE agents’ unchecked power.
“Meanwhile, there arehours-long lines at airportsand gaps in our national security because Republicans in the House and Senate can’t agree on what they want to do. The Republican-controlled Senate unanimously passeda deal that would have funded TSA while allowing negotiations to continue to reform ICE and Customs and Border Protection—but House Republicans rejected their own party’s bill and skipped town without doing their jobs. Now everything is back to square one.
“Finally, when faced with this embarrassing Republican infighting, Trump decided to tap into one of the multi-billion-dollar slush funds from his Big Beautiful Bill to at least get TSA agents paid—something that he could have done weeks ago and spared everybody this pain. But inflicting unnecessary pain, it seems, has always been the point of his immigration policies.”
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Jim Baird (R-IN-04)
Congressman Baird Votes to Fund Homeland Security
Washington, March 27, 2026
Today, Congressman Jim Baird released the following statement after voting in favor of legislation to fund the U.S. Department of Homeland Security through May 22, 2026:
“The House has been clear: we have passed legislation six times to pay these critical employees – legislation that was agreed to by both sides of the aisle. We have sent this legislation to the Senate six times. The Senate has failed.
“Democrats have repeatedly moved the goal posts and made unreasonable demands in negotiations. Supporting homeland security should not be a partisan exercise. I was proud to vote for this legislation in the House to fund our homeland security and deliver long-overdue paychecks to the men and women of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security who ensure the security of the United States.”
Source: United States House of Representatives – Representative Judy Chu (CA2-27)
WASHINGTON, D.C – Today, Rep. Judy Chu (CA-28) voted against the House Amendment to the Senate Amendment to H.R. 7147, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2026, which passed by a vote of 213-203.
“I once again refuse to support legislation that increases funding to ICE, an uncontrolled rogue agency that has brutalized our communities and killed American citizens in their reign of violence and fear. House Republicans had the opportunity in front of them to end the DHS shut down, and to fund employees at vital security agencies like TSA, FEMA, and CISA — employees who have been working without a paycheck to keep the American people safe.
Instead, they chose to reject a bipartisan deal unanimously passed by the Senate, leaving tens of thousands of Americans without pay, all in the name of funding an agency that is actively harming Americans with no oversight and no accountability.
I refuse to cave to Republicans’ continued efforts to strongarm more funding for ICE, especially when the Senate has already agreed on a deal to end this crisis. I continue to stand with immigrants and all Americans, and will work to ensure that ICE and the Trump administration are held accountable.”