Senate Republican calls for someone to ‘be the adult’ in DHS funding fight
NBC News·2026-04-02 21:36
Welcome back. Nearly seven weeks into the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, the president says he will sign an executive order to pay all employees at DHS. Now, it remains unclear what the source of the funding would be.It comes after Republican leadership in the House and Senate announced yesterday that they had come to an agreement on a bill to fund all of DHS except for ICE and CBP and then to plan a separate budget process to fund those agencies later. Here's leader Thun earlier t ...