Congress left Washington for a two-week Easter break with the Department of Homeland Security still without full funding.
by MATT GALKA | The National News DeskWASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 04: U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks on the phone as he walks through the senate subway of the U.S. Capitol during a vote on March 04, 2026 in Washington, DC.
In a 47-53 vote, Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic-backed war powers resolution that would prevent President Donald Trump from continuing the military campaign against Iran. Congress left Washington for a two-week Easter break with the Department of Homeland Security still without full funding, raising questions about whether voters will punish lawmakers in November for the stalemate.TSA officers were expected to start getting back pay on Monday, but the rest of DHS remained shut down. White House Border Czar Tom Homan, speaking Sunday, called for Congress to approve funding and criticized tying broader DHS operations to immigration policy disputes. Homan blamed Democrats after the Republican-controlled House rejected a bipartisan Senate plan that excluded ICE and some Border Patrol funding. “We just need to get the department funded. They want to talk about, you know, immigration policies. We can talk about that, but why do you got to hold the rest of DHS hostage to do that? Let's sit down and talk,” Homan told CBS News' Face the Nation. Homan blamed Democrats after the Republican-controlled House rejected a bipartisan Senate plan that excluded ICE and some Border Patrol funding. ICE received $75 billion from 2025’s “one big beautiful bill” appropriated by Congress. On ABC’s “This Week,” host Jonathan Karl pressed Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., on the dispute, noting, “You're holding up the entirety of the Department of Homeland Security because you object to ICE and you want changes to ICE, but through it all, ICE continues to have the money.”“John, we're we're not holding up all of the money for all the Department of Homeland Security. That's just a false statement. We have said repeatedly, repeatedly, we should fund TSA, we should fund FEMA, we should fund the Coast Guard. We are not prepared to give ICE another 10 billion dollars,” Van Hollen said.showed both Republicans and Democrats underwater with voters on positions worth forcing a shutdown. It remains unclear whether voters will still have the funding fight in mind during the midterms later this year. Todd Belt, a professor at George Washington University, said the optics of lawmakers taking time off during a shutdown can be damaging. “It's a real bad look any time members of Congress look like they're having a good time when members of the government are not being paid,” Belt said.ICE agents had been deployed to airports while TSA dealt with mass call-outs. Now that TSA officers are getting paid, the Trump administration says the agents will remain until there are normal operations.A Harrisburg woman who accused restaurant employees of raping her is now charged with allegedly making false reports to law enforcement.The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection accused J&K Salvage of violating its order to close the business, according to a new court filing.Route 322 was closed for part of Sunday morning after a crash that reportedly involved a horse and buggy, according to Lancaster County dispatch.The call came in around 4:46 a.m. at the 1900 block of Stoverstown Road, where flames were found coming from the basement, dispatch confirmed.A 20-year-old’s life was cut too short in a shooting, and now a Harrisburg mother is trying to live through the pain of losing him.
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