Posted on 03/27/2026 5:01:54 AM PDT by DFG
The Senate has approved a deal to fund TSA and most DHS agencies - but not ICE - ending a 42-day shutdown that has thrown America's airports into chaos.
The bill, passed unanimously without a roll call, now goes to the House, which is expected to take it up Friday.
Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune admitted the bill was 'not the way to fund the Department. But, we were out of time.'
'The Dems wanted reforms,' Thune said. 'We tried to work with them on reforms. They ended up getting no reforms but, you know, we're going to have to fight some of those battles another day.'
The endgame emerged in the final hours before TSA workers missed another paycheck Friday, with pressure mounting to resolve the stalemate.
Donald Trump vowed to sign an executive order to immediately pay TSA agents, citing the 'chaos' engulfing airports.
The package puts no limits on ICE which Democrats have demanded, though Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer touted the vote as a victory, claiming 'we held the line' and vowing to continue the fight against Trump's 'rogue' immigration operation.
ICE has remained largely unaffected by the shutdown - Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill, signed into law last July, funneled billions in extra funds to DHS.
The deal funds FEMA, the Coast Guard and TSA but leaves ICE out. Customs received funding; Border Protection did not.
What happens next in the House is far from certain. Speaker Mike Johnson holds a slim majority and will almost certainly need bipartisan support, with hardliners on both flanks in revolt.
Thune admitted he was not sure what the House would do but believed his colleagues also wanted to approve a deal as the TSA shutdown is causing misery to millions of passengers.
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Ba$tard$ all of them. Thune is TERRIBLE.
I thought ICE was already funded vie the BBB, if so, the headline is the mediawhores trying to claim a win. If not, it’s yet another example of useless republicans caving.
I hope Trump vetos that piece of shit and openly calles for Thine’s head on s platter.
So they didn’t fund ICE.
Reading Schumer’s as always insanely false comments, I really think the Democratic party is no different than that tranny lawyer going crazy in court that was just posted.
42 days of those Democrat animals not funding our airports, and according to the article the idiots in the Republican House will not even cooperate on this funding.
I’m sorry to say it but the guilty party is the group of American people that we have assembled here which includes illegals radical Muslims homosexual and transgender kook radicals, and of course the star of it all white suburban women.
I believe the Border Patrol is now funded.
It will be the Border Patrol that descends on the City States to make arrests by the tens of thousands.
The ICE effort to arrest criminal illegal aliens might be mostly accomplished any way
The Repubs are led by loser thune.
The Republicans always cave and lose.
The Democrats always hold tough and win.
Nothing new.
Here is the current state of America with Lawers claiming they can't breathe as they are violently resisting arrest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D9cNxmSCDI
The article says Border Patrol is not funded.
A full capitulation would have been caving to Democrat demands to neuter ICE. I don’t believe that’s happened, yet.
Thune needs to be replaced! Well the majority of both parties needs replacement. There’s only one way that’ll happen though and most don’t have the stomach to do what needs to be done. It obviously isn’t happening at the ballot box.
The fact that we don’t have politicians who want Thune replaced is all we need to see. They are all on the same team, just different messaging.
Please don't let the media define terms, as they so do seek to do.
My bride of these many decades, and almost all her 'white suburban women' friends in a variety of social groups are solidly conservative, married and most sensible.
ICE is already funded, and Dems didn’t get the “reforms” they wanted, so I don’t see what price the Republicans paid. I read the whole article. It looks like a win to me...?
I missed that.
So I guess it is time to start firing on Fort Sumpter
Ice has substantial multi-year funding that lasts through fiscal year 2029. Assuming expenses were correctly accounted for.
So the Democrats omitted ICE funding but ICE is already funded and was unaffected by the shutdown and the Democrats claim they won.
1984 thinking.
ICE is funded through 2029.
ICE is funded through 2029. See, The Big Beautiful Bill
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