Senate votes to fund much of DHS, minus immigration enforcement
(NPR) The Senate voted overnight to fund large swaths of the Department of Homeland Security after a 42-day standoff over immigration enforcement tactics. The bill does not include funding for the agency's main immigration enforcement operations.
The legislation now goes to the House for a vote.
The DHS funding lapse forced tens of thousands of employees to work without pay - or quit– and resulted in long waits at some airports amid peak spring break travel.
Democrats have refused to support funding for DHS over objections to immigration enforcement tactics used by the agency's officers. Democrats insisted on reforms to the agency after federal officers killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis.
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/27/g-s1-115366/senate-dhs-tsa-deal
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