‘Garbage’: House Republicans Fume Over Senate DHS Funding Bill
“We’re not gonna move this Senate bill. We’re gonna move something better and send it back to the Senate.”
The partial DHS shutdown won’t end soon, even after the Senate passed a bill, because House Republicans have already started rebelling.
Rep. Chip Roy said the bill is a “non-starter” in the House because it doesn’t fund all of DHS and lacks the SAVE America Act:
Everybody, it’s Chip Roy here from Texas 21 and what the Senate just sent over to the House is so laughably bad. We’re rejecting it out of hand. They sent over a bill that’s not going to fund ICE and border patrol and stand with the great men and women who are defending our country. We reject that.
We’re going to stand alongside our law enforcement personnel. We’re going to have a full throated debate. We’re deciding what we’re gonna do, but suffice it to say we need to stand with those who are standing up for us to defend our country. We need to fully fund them. We need to consider voter ID and other things to make our country safer and better.
But we’re not gonna. We’re not gonna move this Senate bill. We’re gonna move something better and send it back to the Senate.
The Senate bill is a non-starter. We’ll send something back to stand with @CBP & @ICEgov – perhaps other important provisions. But we’re not accepting the garbage from the Senate. pic.twitter.com/2upBegzJVy
— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) March 27, 2026
A few things, though. Most of ICE and Border Patrol have been funded primarily through the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB):
Some color on who is & isn’t being paid in ICE & CBP via the One Big Beautiful Bill.
Most of ICE & CBP are funded through 2029 via the OBBB and operations won’t be impacted if they aren’t funded through appropriations, for now.
All frontline law enforcement is being paid. The ICE, Border Patrol, and CBP agents we see in the field are all getting paid via OBBB.
HOWEVER… their professional and civilian support staff are NOT being paid. These are people who work the computers, the public affairs offices, and other support staff who aren’t on the front line making immigration arrests, but are supporting the agents who are.
These civilian support staffers haven’t been paid for almost half of the last six months when you factor in the prior shutdown last fall. They feel left behind – and feel they have no light at the end of the tunnel with this Senate bill leaving CBP & ICE unfunded through appropriations. They would have to hope GOP could take care of them in a future reconciliation bill, or that more funds could be moved around to pay them.
These are some texts I’ve gotten from these staffers…
CBP support employee:
“The senate bill paid TSA but thousands of CBP & ICE professional staff will not be paid. The last paid work day for me was February 13. Now senate on paid vacation until April 13 that is a guarantee for 2 months no pay. Very likely we won’t be paid until May if Johnson lets the bill pass.”
ICE civilian employee:
“I have a huge favor. When you guys report on the fact that ICE is funded through OB3 funds, can you please make it known that support staff (i.e. mission support, OPA, etc.) is NOT getting paid?”
HSI civilian employee:
“We civilians are not getting paid, I’m working with my mom in the hospital and not getting paid. This is all so frustrating…sorry bill for venting!”
Some color on who is & isn't being paid in ICE & CBP via the One Big Beautiful Bill.
Most of ICE & CBP are funded through 2029 via the OBBB and operations won't be impacted if they aren't funded through appropriations, for now.
All frontline law enforcement is being paid. The…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) March 27, 2026
The shutdown has mainly affected the TSA, FEMA, and Coast Guard.
The original DHS funding bill would have funded the HSI (Homeland Security Investigations), which handles trafficking.
The Senate bill that passed provides no funding to ICE.
“We can’t believe that the Senate abdicated its responsibility this morning of not funding the child sex-trafficking investigation division of ICE, that they didn’t fund the border patrol,” stated Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris (R-MD).
Axios reported that House Speaker Mike Johnson agreed to a 6-day continuing resolution with the Freedom Caucus.
The CR would fund all of DHS.
The Senate would have to approve the CR because, remember, bills have to start in the House.
Well, Senators have left Congress for a recess.
If Johnson brings the Senate bill to the floor, he cannot lose the Freedom Caucus. Democrats would have to support the bill.
Considering House Democrats won’t ever cross the aisle, that won’t happen.
Johnson already has a problem on his hands because 11 members missed the first vote this morning.
The House cannot “pass a rule and bring it to the floor on the same day.”
Due to the absence of 11 members, the Republicans lack the 2/3 majority, which means they cannot pass it “on suspension of the rules.”
The Republicans have to hold a rules meeting, gavel the chamber out of session, and start a new legislative day.
NEWS — House Republicans are discussing restoring all of CBP and ICE's funding in the Senate-passed DHS bill.
Funding would be shorter term than through the end of the fiscal year.
Still up in the air whether they can do this today. They don't have same-day authority, so…
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) March 27, 2026
If the House wants to pass something today, they'd need to have a rules meeting, gavel the chamber out of session and create a new legislative day. heavy handed move, but possible, i suppose.@ringwiss thoughts?
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) March 27, 2026
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hmmm
wondering how the dems will play this on the pr stage
like….gop wants more suffering at the airports and more plane crashes
before there was trump:
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/ross-perot-for-president-cold-open/2868125
Good, give the Communist traitors nothing. Congress is supposed to have one freaking job they’re supposed to accomplish every year and that’s a budget. Do your damn job
Can Congress just do it’s damn job and pass a friggen budget so we can avoid this nonsense?
Short answer is yes, but we wouldn’t like it. What we’d get would be an eternal CR with automatic annual extension after a pro forma vote whether to renew it and an automatic spending increase to match CPI across the board each FY. The establishment of both parties would love it b/c all their favored spending priorities would be funded in some grand bargain of the baseline budget and they could blame the other party, the ‘rules’ or the ‘system’ for preventing changes.
At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, Thune passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP.
Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just Thune, Barrasso, and a handful of senators shuffling paper in the dead of night while America slept.
Thune could have demanded a recorded vote. Thune chose not to.
Thune could have held the line for five more days until the House returned. Thune chose not to.
Thune could have used the same procedural tools Democrats have used against him for 40 days. Thune chose not to.
Instead, Thune gave Chuck Schumer exactly what he asked for, DHS funding minus immigration enforcement, and called it a win. Then Thune walked to the cameras and blamed the Democrats.
And he left, pictures of him at airport… he must be flying private
And that’s the Republican playbook whenever they need to sell out their supporters:
As a former Kansan, I can confirm that Bob Dole was a traitor
I don’t understand the problem. So it has to wait until Monday. That’s still faster than never, which is when the shitlib Democrats would pay them.
Political theater. They’ll pass the senate bill while pretending to be outraged by its contents. They’ll promise to do better next time, then forget about it completely 1 minute later.
This will never become law, but there needs to be a law that if Congress cannot pass a full appropriations bill for the entirety of government, then no one in the Legislative branch gets paid or gets benefits until it is resolved. That also means Congressional staffers. And only the Capitol building is open to Congress. No offices, no Library of Congress.
Unfortunately, that is as likely to become law as term limits would be.
And we need to stop all the perks for Congress. They get the same benefits as the lowliest Federal employee, no pension, no special treatment.
The HoR did its job. The Senate played patty cake for a couple months and supposedly essential TSA workers didn’t get paid. Nor did non LEO employees CBP/ICE or Coast Guard among others at DHS.
The arrogance of the Senate as a whole to pass some crap, on a voice vote, that the HoR is not gonna accept then just skip town to go off on a scheduled ‘break’ is something. It doesn’t provide funding for the support staff, non LEO employees at CBP/ICE.
Dumping this turd onto Speaker Johnson is Cray Cray. If I was Speaker this thing wouldn’t get a floor vote. Instead I’d tell the.Senate to pound sand and refer them to President Trump’s very clear statement that he would ‘refuse to sign any legislation until the SAVE act was passed’ and suggest the Senate still has work to do in passing the SAVE act passed by HoR before the HoR will take up any legislation…b/c it won’t matter if they do as President Trump promised the American people he wouldn’t sign it without the SAVE act.
DHS funding should be split from SAVE act. Yes SAVE act is important and even critical. However, I’m tired of these Omnibus bills with everything shoved into the including 2 kitchen sinks. This is how pork keeps getting slipped in. Keep bills focused on a single target.
Not till safe act is passed
Trump already said he ain’t signing nothing till safe act comes to his desk
Chip Roy trying to sound like MAGA
He really wants to win the AG in Texas
He’s not close to Paxton