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.”
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman John Moolenaar (4th District of Michigan)
Headline: Moolenaar Votes to Fund Homeland Security… Again
Today, Congressman John Moolenaar voted in favor of H.R. 8029, the Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act. The legislation comes as the partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security enters its 40th day. This is the third attempt by House Republicans to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
“DHS agents with TSA, FEMA, Border Patrol, and Coast Guard are vital to keeping our nation safe and have worked now for over a month without pay as this shutdown continues. In the House, I supported three bills to prevent or end the shutdown and fully fund DHS. Meanwhile, my Democrat colleagues have voted against each of these commonsense measures to ensure those who keep us safe get paid. It’s long past due for Democrats to compromise on their demands, and fund DHS,” said Moolenaar.
The Department of Homeland Security remains shut down since funding lapsed for the department on February 14. Many DHS agencies are deemed essential, requiring its employees to work without pay for the duration of government shutdowns.
Over 450 TSA agents resigned since the beginning of the shutdown.
H.R. 8029 passed the House of Representatives in a vote of 218 to 206. Only 4 members of the Democrat party supported the legislation.
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Sanford D Bishop Jr (GA-02)
WASHINGTON – Tonight, Congressman Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (GA-02) issued the following statement after U.S. House Republican leaders prevented a bipartisan bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security from being voted on after it had been passed in the U.S. Senate by unanimous consent:
“Congress must pay the TSA, Coast Guard, FEMA, and other public safety agencies while we negotiate commonsense reforms to ICE and CBP in response to their aggressive actions which have hurt, and even killed, American citizens and law-abiding immigrant families. Americans demand accountability and transparency.
“Ignoring these concerns, House Republican leaders repeatedly sent partisan Homeland Security funding bills to the Senate over the past several weeks, all of which were voted down.
“Now, this morning, Senate Democrats and Republicans negotiated a solution to fund Homeland Security which passed by unanimous consent. Even President Trump was signaling that he was supportive of the bill. We could have ended the shutdown today!
“Instead, House Republican leaders, have said the House cannot vote on a bipartisan bill and instead insist on sending yet another bill to the Senate that cannot pass.
“Our federal workers at our airports, disaster assistance, the Coast Guard – and the millions of Americans who rely on them – all hang in the balance. I am confident that if the House could vote on today’s Senate funding bill, the House would pass it and end this chaos.”
Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (8th District of New York)
Today, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries appeared on CNN’s The Lead, where he emphasized that House Republicans are prolonging the painful government shutdown by blocking bipartisan legislation to end the shutdown.
PHIL MATTINGLY: Leader Jeffries, really appreciate your time. Just to start with—the administration moving forward on this executive action to pay TSA agents. Given the pain that they’ve faced, is that something you support, given the fact there doesn’t seem to be any legislative outcome coming soon based on House Republicans?
LEADER JEFFRIES: We called for Donald Trump to do this weeks ago. Donald Trump and Republicans have now shut down the Department of Homeland Security for 42 days. They forced TSA agents to work without pay. They’re inconveniencing millions of Americans and they’re creating chaos at airports all across the land. Donald Trump for weeks claimed he did not have this authority. Of course he did. But what we need to happen right now is for House Republicans to bring bipartisan legislation that was unanimously passed by the Senate to the Floor so we can end this Trump-Republican shutdown today.
PHIL MATTINGLY: Leader Jeffries, one of the questions that I’ve gotten often that I have a difficult time explaining the rationale is, look, ICE is paid right now on the mandatory side. They are funded right now based on the President’s policy proposal that Congress signed into law on Republican-only votes last year. What is the fight? Is this about ICE, or is this purely a negotiating mechanism, a vehicle to get the negotiation that you want on ICE restrictions?
LEADER JEFFRIES: You are correct that ICE has a $75 billion slush fund that was part of the Republican One Big Ugly Bill that was enacted by Republican-only votes last year, where at the same time, they ripped Medicaid away from the American people and stole food from the mouths of hungry children, seniors and veterans with a $186 billion cut to nutritional assistance. So there’s a continuing fight about policy priorities. House Democrats believe that taxpayer dollars should be spent to make life more affordable for the American people, not to brutalize and kill American citizens or violently target law-abiding immigrant families. At the same period of time, we want Republicans to stop holding TSA agents and air travelers hostage to their extreme immigration agenda.
PHIL MATTINGLY: Do you believe there is any pathway at this point to actually secure the enforcement-related changes Democrats were pushing for that led to this in the start?
LEADER JEFFRIES: Yes, because the American people are demanding that immigration enforcement in this country be fair, just and humane. We want to compel ICE to conduct itself like every other cop, police officer and law enforcement agency in the country by enacting changes that are bold, meaningful, dramatic and common-sense at the same period of time. That’s what the American people have demanded Congress do because the American people are rejecting the notion that billions of dollars are being spent to brutalize, target and kill them. That’s not acceptable in this country. It’s one of the reasons why Donald Trump’s policies, his mass deportation, violent, extreme agenda, is so deeply unpopular.
PHIL MATTINGLY: I want to play some sound from Republican Congressman Chip Roy from earlier today. Take a listen.
RECORDING OF REP. CHIP ROY: It is absolutely offensive to the people that we represent that the Senate would send over a bill that doesn’t fund Border Patrol and the core components of ICE. And the fact that they would expect us to take that up and pass it today as they leave town? I mean, could the Senate be any more lazy than to send to us a bill that doesn’t do the job and then leave town?
PHIL MATTINGLY: I do want to preface this with it is a universal view in the House, bipartisan, that they don’t like the Senate all that much, and oftentimes would characterize it, maybe not publicly, as lazy, as you just heard from the Congressman there. My better question is, as a Leader, watching the Speaker and Senate Majority Leader John Thune end up in this position, how does that happen?
LEADER JEFFRIES: Well, House Republicans continue to fight with Senate Republicans while Democrats are fighting to make life better for the American people. Chip Roy should know that in the One Big Ugly Bill that he supported, $65 billion in a slush fund was given to Customs and Border Patrol. They have more than enough money to continue to do the types of things that they have been charged to do under law. But what shouldn’t be happening is that CBP agents shouldn’t be commandeered by ICE to actually target, violently brutalize or, in some cases, kill the American people. ICE is well-funded, CBP is well-funded, but Republicans have decided that they don’t want to get ICE under control, which is why they have shut down DHS, shut down TSA effectively, shut down FEMA and shut down the Coast Guard so that they can continue to jam their extreme ideology down the throats of the American people.