after the White House requested that the bill be passed immediately<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cIt has come to this,\u201d said Representative Mark Alford, Republican of Missouri, as he offered the legislation on the House floor. \u201cWe need, no we must, pay our D.H.S. workers.\u201d<\/p>\n
The legislation, which Mr. Trump signed into law shortly after it passed, funds the department through Sept. 30, except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and parts of Customs and Border Protection, which received an earlier influx of money from a Republican-only law. Republicans in the House and Senate are now pushing new legislation that would pour an additional $70 billion into immigration operations through the end of Mr. Trump\u2019s second term, using a process that would shield the measure from a Democratic filibuster.<\/p>\n
Speaker Mike Johnson had sat on the funding legislation despite encouragement from the White House to pass it, as members of the House lashed out at their colleagues in the Senate for putting them in a bad political situation. To prevent employees from having to work without pay, the White House had shifted existing funds around to meet payroll after disruptions in security screening caused chaos at some airports. But the administration warned this week that it was running short of money to continue doing so.<\/p>\n
With some Republicans still objecting to allowing the measure to come up, Mr. Johnson was forced to resort to a maneuver that sped it to the floor, limiting debate and requiring a two-thirds supermajority for passage.<\/p>\n
In the end, opponents did not even insist on a recorded vote, though some, including Representative Chip Roy, Republican of Texas, could be heard shouting \u201cNo\u201d as it passed.<\/p>\n
Democrats said the impasse could have been resolved weeks ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been Republicans who have been intransigent,\u201d said Representative Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee. \u201cIt could have been done 76 days ago. But I will take it today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Republicans said House approval on Wednesday night of a budget outline that would pave the way for the $70 billion immigration enforcement bill finally cleared the way for approval of the funding plan, which passed the Senate on a bipartisan basis weeks ago.<\/p>\n
Mr. Johnson said that approving the budget resolution was \u201ccritically important\u201d to releasing the funding for the rest of the department, providing some assurance to House Republicans that sufficient money would be forthcoming even if Democrats continued their blockade. The House and Senate are to consider legislation providing the money when they return in mid-May and try to meet the president\u2019s June 1 deadline for getting the legislation to his desk.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow that that box is checked, we\u2019re allowed, then, to proceed and go through with the rest of it,\u201d Mr. Johnson said.<\/p>\n
The speaker acknowledged on Thursday that he had \u201ctrashed\u201d the spending bill when the Senate first sent it to the House in March. He again called it \u201chaphazardly drafted\u201d and criticized it for zeroing out immigration enforcement operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe threw a fit, and we had to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
But he did not explain why he backed down from a vow earlier this week to bring a modified bill to the floor. <\/p>\n
Despite weeks of negotiations, the White House and Senate Democrats could never reach agreement on new limits on the tactics and conduct of immigration officers, including Democrats\u2019 demands for a ban on agents wearing masks and a warrant requirement for some arrests.<\/p>\n
Members of both parties have said the clash is further diminishing Congress\u2019s power of the purse, as Republicans resort to the budget maneuver to fund significant parts of the department outside normal channels.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is really a bad way to do business, whether you are a Republican or Democrat,\u201d Representative Tom Cole, the Oklahoma Republican who leads the Appropriations Committee, said. \u201cIt\u2019s bad for Congress to give any president, even one you support, three years of funding this way.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The House on Thursday passed stalled legislation reopening the Department of Homeland Security, ending a record 76-day shutdown…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[13624,25387,491,4203,27853,27854,4858,27852,478,3945,28909,74,17647],"class_list":{"0":"post-51902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mike-johnson","8":"tag-donald-j","9":"tag-homeland-security-department","10":"tag-house-of-representatives","11":"tag-illegal-immigration","12":"tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement-us","13":"tag-immigration-and-emigration","14":"tag-johnson","15":"tag-mike-1972","16":"tag-mike-johnson","17":"tag-republican-party","18":"tag-shutdowns-institutional","19":"tag-trump","20":"tag-united-states-politics-and-government"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116497562003798765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}