Defying Senate, House GOP passes DHS funding stopgap

The Department of Homeland Security shutdown will continue into the weekend after House Republicans snubbed the Senate’s funding deal and passed their own funding stopgap instead.

Rather than approve a dead-of-night compromise that Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., made with Senate Democrats right before the upper chamber left town, House leadership pushed a 60-day Continuing Resolution through the Rules committee and onto the House floor.

“The Senate’s bill was unconscionable. In the dead of night, they defunded Border Patrol and ICE — including the division that fights child sex trafficking — giving Democrats everything they wanted. That weak, pathetic surrender is unacceptable,” Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, posted on X after the House vote Friday night. “Senators need to get back to Washington immediately, do their jobs, and pass this bill.”

Senators, however, h...