{"id":28021,"date":"2026-05-01T12:59:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=28021"},"modified":"2026-05-01T12:59:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:59:53","slug":"house-passes-dhs-funding-clears-hurdle-to-ending-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=28021","title":{"rendered":"House Passes DHS Funding, Clears Hurdle to Ending Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., has succeeded in rallying his slim majority around controversial measures involving surveillance,\u00a0immigration enforcement\u00a0funding, and\u00a0agricultural policy, successfully leading passage of the bills on Thursday.\n<\/p>\n

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The House voted by voice Thursday to pass the Senate\u2019s measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security, sending the bill to President Donald Trump\u2019s desk to end a record-long partial government shutdown. The House will recess after Thursday for a week.\n<\/p>\n

On Wednesday night, after days of struggling to come to a deal, the House passed a resolution unlocking the process of\u00a0budget reconciliation, allowing Republicans to fund immigration enforcement without needing Democrat votes in the Senate.\n<\/p>\n

.@SpeakerJohnson<\/a>: \u201cDespite unrelenting predictions from many of you today in the press that we would fail this week, we did exactly the opposite.\n<\/p>\n

I\u2019m really glad to tell you that House Republicans pulled together and delivered major pieces of legislation and huge priorities for\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/sbbipFXVwW<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\u2014 Speaker Johnson War Room (@speakerwarroom) April 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

In order to do so,\u00a0Republican leadership\u00a0had to overcome some rank-and-file members\u2019 complaints about a piecemeal approach to funding the\u00a0Department of Homeland Security, in which Republicans would fund the agency\u2019s non-immigration responsibilities in a separate bipartisan bill.\n<\/p>\n

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, an opponent of the piecemeal approach, explained to reporters why he did not demand a recorded vote on Thursday.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there was a vote, I would\u2019ve voted no,\u201d he said. \u201cBut we weren\u2019t going to win that vote, so we decided to let it pass by voice vote.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Roy has argued that leaving immigration funding outside of the typical bipartisan process risks a partisan targeting of funding in the future.\n<\/p>\n

Final Touches<\/h2>\n

House Republicans also overcame bitter disagreements in passing a three-year extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.\n<\/p>\n

A faction of Republicans had for weeks demanded major reforms to the espionage program to prevent the surveillance of American citizens.\n<\/p>\n

Leadership ultimately won them over with\u00a0warrant reforms, as well as a prohibition on the development of a central bank digital currency\u2014something privacy hawks have long argued could be used as a potential surveillance tool.\n<\/p>\n

The future of the House\u00a0FISA bill\u00a0is uncertain in the Senate, and the surveillance authority expires at midnight.\n<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has said the House\u2019s FISA bill is \u201cdead on arrival\u201d in the Senate due to the central bank digital currency ban.\n<\/p>\n

Senate Republicans are\u00a0attempting to advance a 45-day FISA extension.\n<\/p>\n

The House would have to fast-track this bill under a process known as \u201csuspension of the rules\u201d with a two-thirds vote in order to meet the deadline.\n<\/p>\n

This is usually forbidden on Thursdays and Fridays, but the House Rules Committee, a leadership-controlled panel, voted to make an exception this week in a resolution that passed on Thursday.\n<\/p>\n

Johnson said after the DHS vote that the Senate should pass the House\u2019s FISA bill to \u201ccheck the last box,\u201d saying they \u201cdon\u2019t seem to have another alternative.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Farm Bill<\/h2>\n

Johnson\u2019s other success was passing a massive\u00a0farm bill\u00a0by a 224-200\u00a0<\/em>margin to revamp agricultural policy and provide assistance to farmers ahead of the midterm elections.\n<\/p>\n

Several members initially objected to elements in the bill, prompting Republicans to set up several amendment votes on subjects of disagreement before the farm bill ultimately passed.\n<\/p>\n

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna,\u00a0R-Fla., for example, objected to language blocking state regulations of pesticide companies, and her amendment changing this provision passed 280-142.\n<\/p>\n

Midwestern Republicans, hoping to score a win with corn farmers in their districts ahead of midterms, demanded that leadership work with them to build a regulatory environment more friendly to ethanol-blended gasoline, which is often derived from corn.\n<\/p>\n

Thune has indicated the Senate wishes to proceed with its own farm bill.\n<\/p>\n

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This article was originally published at The Daily Signal. Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by Molly Riley.<\/em>
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