House approves bill to fund DHS, ending record-long partial shutdown

After months of resistance, the House on Thursday passed the Senate-backed Department of Homeland Security funding bill, which funds all agencies inside DHS except immigration enforcement operations.The bill passed via voice vote. There was no recorded vote requested.President Donald Trump signed the bill Thursday afternoon, the White House confirmed, effectively ending the record-long DHS shutdown after 76 days.DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin had warned extra funding to pay his department's employees would have "dried up" by the first week of May.The House took action just before Congress leaves for a weeklong recess."This will relieve pressure from the Department of Homeland Security," Johnson told reporters after the vote. "We're not going to have lines at TSA. Everybody will get their paychecks now. We'll get moving forward."The US Capitol is seen, April 20, 2026 in Washington.Leigh Vogel/Getty ImagesWhile the package funds most of DHS -- the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency -- it does not include funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and parts of Customs and Border Protection.Republicans are working on a separate budget bill to fund those agencies through reconciliation, a process that will allow