House GOP Leaders Reject Bill to Fund DHS, Likely Extending Standoff

Mmm, thats it. Keep owning the shutdown and making people hate you. Love it

They don't care. Donald Trump told them not to give Democrats a win no matter what and this lines up perfectly with that order. They're so scared of Trump they are wearing shoes that are two sizes too big. They're eating his shit with a smile.

Republicans instead plan to propose an eight-week bill to fund the entire department, including back pay for TSA workers **TL;DR:** The Senate passed a bill overnight to fund most of DHS through the end of the fiscal year, covering everything except ICE and Border Patrol (TSA, Coast Guard, FEMA included). House GOP leaders immediately rejected it because it left out immigration enforcement funding. Speaker Johnson said the House will instead pursue an 8-week stopgap that funds all of DHS, including back pay for TSA workers. Problem: senators have already left for a 2-week Easter recess, so nothing is getting resolved quickly. Meanwhile, TSA agents have been going unpaid since DHS funding lapsed on February 14th, causing widespread call-outs, long airport lines, and some workers quitting entirely. Trump separately said he'd sign an executive order directing DHS Secretary Mullin to pay TSA workers as an emergency measure. The underlying fight: Democrats blocked ICE/Border Patrol funding after two U.S. citizens died in confrontations with immigration agents in Minnesota. Senate Republicans plan to try funding enforcement separately via budget reconciliation, which only requires a simple majority and cuts Democrats out of the process entirely.

Truly stupid GOP believe they can convince voters that this is all the Democrats fault.

Republicans need to be voted out of congress en masse. Time to clean house!

My prediction is that Trump is going to unilaterally appropriate funds from somewhere, no one is going to stop him (certainly not the courts), and this issue is basically going to end Congress's power of the purse. Hope I'm wrong but I guess we'll see.

This is america, where the SS/gestapo get paid and the real workers (TSA) are made to work for free. Never forgive the voters who wanted this to happen, they wanted their pedo-in-chief back.

Motherfuckers control the entire government and can’t get shit done.

GOP hates Americans and America. They want us all to suffer pain and loss.

Another week, another 40 day shutdown. It’s peak unserious government when they’d rather keep the DHS deadlock alive for campaign clips than actually pay the TSA and Border Patrol agents working for free. We're sitting here with 4 hour airport lines and zero stability while the House GOP tanks the only deal that actually had a shot in the Senate. It’s all performative chaos at this point, and the rest of us are just stuck paying for the drama with our own sanity. Same circus, different Tuesday.

One person's opinion, but I think this is another case of Mike Johnson taking a bullet to keep Trump from having to take a position (sign it or veto it) on a popular bill that he doesn't like.

Republican Shutdown.

GOP just got baited so hard lmao. They just took full ownership of the shutdown they never even wanted. I shouldn't credit the democrats too much here though. The GOP created this opportunity all on their own. They begged democrats to fund DHS and framed the entire thing as being harmful to TSA and therefore airport security. Now the GOP is openly blackmailing TSA funding until their thugs get paid. Well played, stable geniuses.

Good job House GOP. The Senate offered you a lifeline to not sink right before the Easter holiday and you threw it away. It’s honestly amazing how utterly incompetent and stupid the GOP is.

Not a serious government.

The overwhelming sentiment among the majority of white voters across all three elections: 'The fact that you think we care is truly comical. The cages, the deportations, and the violence are what we voted for. So brace yourselves. Because there are three plus more years of the beatings, and we are just getting started.' Among those who voted, the majority of white men and white women voted for a racist, fascist, sexist, war-mongering kid rapist and kid killer in 2016, 2020, and 2024. *It was never about the price of eggs or gas.*

So the GOP really are owning the shutdown. Nice.

hahaha omg these guys have all the control and just cant get out of their own way to do ANYTHING productive

Now who is blocking funding to TSA? own it republicans!

Everybody knows that it gets much worse with every single hour that passes. The MAGAts are all such little-d*** cowards that they won't end this madness, and they are the only ones that can. Every hour that passes also makes the crash that much worse when it inevitably happens. They still don't act. They would rather sit and get more and more nervous than admit they were wrong.

Republicans have been setting up the Democrats as the Save the Day Cavalry for the past 6 months now. It almost feels like they all WANT to give up their seats in the midterms. I'm OK with this.

Mid-terms are gonna be savage. Assuming we get to have them

So that's it for the foreseeable future, then? If nothing passes today, Congress is cleared to go into recess, right?. That drags out this standoff to, what, another couple of weeks or so?

The morons of MAGA will not see or understand ‘House GOP’ rejects Bill to fund DHS. They’ll blame Biden, Obama, and the rest of the ‘radical’ left.

Magic Mike strikes again

They need to stay and resolve or don’t have a job

“GOP has ruined your vacation by not passing an agreed upon bill by their Senate counterparts.” Should be the headlines moving forward. GOP can fix this any time but refuse to do so.

So now they've made it clear it's the GOPs fault haha. Mike Johnson and their ilk are actually stupid

House GOP countered with a new appropriation of $100,000,000,000 for a new fugitive slave catching force.

They will still somehow manage to blame the Democrats

So wait. This morning comments said the "Dems caved"! A few hours later, the GOP rejected the deal. Maybe the Dems actually did something savvy to (further) demonstrate and communicate that the GOP is full of lunatics?

Messaging win for the Dems. With Trump linking this bill with the SAVE Act and now House GOP rejecting it, this is now unambiguously a Republican shutdown.

I'm sure they will blame Obama

"Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake"

And there are still MAGA heads out there saying “congress has been trying to pass funding for the TSA. But the democrats keep blocking it!” My implicit bias against MAGA grows by the day

Trump wants the SAVE Act passed, or they'll lose the midterms.

Republicans still owning that shit. Thats hilarious.

Suffering and stagnation is the agenda

makes sense. mike johnson is a cuck b**** for trump. he’ll side with donnie over thune and the senate

Damn Democrats and Biden It's all their fault! /S

Now they go on a 2 week vacation. They’re done in November.

Can’t believe there aren’t enough votes in the House to pass this. Johnson is just Trumps puppet. What’s the point though in delaying another 2 weeks? Pissing people off more?

I could have told you this the minute the news came out on the Senate passing it came out...

Spring break gonna be lit…in the airport with the homies. Just what everyone wants

Republicans want ICE to take over for TSA and aren’t going to give up until it happens.

So, I guess Trump signed an executive order saying all TSA will now get paid… But how? Isn’t that only something Congress can do? Hence the reason they’re trying to negotiate a bill?!

Republicans hours ago- "Democrats caved! got nothing!" "Democrats didn't get anything so this was a waste of time on their part." "Great Job, Republicans. Getting this done without help from Democrats." Johnson- Republicans will own this shut down. Watch This.

The trump shutdown continues! Most shut downs by any president!!! USA USA USA!!!

I'm not fully surprised, but I did think that a unanimous vote in the Senate would at least make them consider it a bit more.

Damn Democrats, not forcing Republicans to do the right thing hard enough!

I'm trying understand why ice needs more money when they were able to deploy a ton of agents tk do nothing at airports. Sounds like they already have too much extra money.

Pawns. We are all pawns in their stupidity.

Omg read the room

Wow republicans really don’t want tsa to get paid

All a bunch of twats. They get paid no matter what. How about we defund them? What value do they bring

Cool cool cool cool. I swear a group of kindergarteners would be more effective at governance

lol, gods these people are toxic stupidity. I hope your payday is big enough Mike, because I don’t see this working out for you in the long run.

What's their majority down to now, 2 or 3 seats? Wouldn't be surprised if it passes anyway

Idk how I’m going to last 3 more years of this

But Trump said that he was going to “order them to pay TSA”?

Woot! Let the airport chaos continue! Let the normies get a little rocked in their lives and see that politics is more than just quarterbacking ideologies. Defund DHS and end the surveillance state! End ICE, end the TSA, end the CIA, end the NSA, end the war against Iran, end the support for Israel’s genocide! Let’s go!

I genuinely don’t understand how the government works, it’s so confusing to me. Can trump sign an executive order to pay TSA? If so, why didn’t he do that weeks ago? Also didn’t the senate unanimously vote last night to find DHS (minus ice and border patrol)? Unanimously, that’s seems massive to me, so why wouldn’t the house vote on it? I know I’m trying to find sense in administration that is nonsensical , but still.

Now they own the shutdown and the ultra-long TSA lines. Its almost like they want to lose.

Hey guys maybe we should fund the tsa when fighting a war against the leading state sponsor or terror.

>Republicans instead plan to propose an eight-week bill to fund the entire department, including back pay for TSA workers ICE/BP has funding, this is dumb and the media needs to point that out every time they claim that the Ds are "defunding ICE"

The end goal is ultimately to privatize airport security. Much like we had (checks notes) prior to 9/11.

So dumb so dumb

This kind of stalemate should trigger an immediate election. We need new representation.

They turned a gift sent to them by the Democrats into a disaster for them. Honestly surprised they took such a big L.