There seemed to be a deal. Senators appeared to have finally reached an agreement to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security and effectively end a partial government shutdown that's dragged on for more than a month. But then it quickly collapsed after House Speaker Mike Johnson dismissed the deal as a “joke.
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Here's how to cope with in-flight anxietyA photo captures black spots on clothespins that reveal the environmental toll of conflict in TehranUganda reintroduces rhinos into a protected area where they have been extinct since 1983Dietary supplement makers push the FDA to allow peptides and other new ingredientsAs demand for GLP-1 pills and shots surges, healthy habits are still keyAI is giving bad advice to flatter its users, says new study on dangers of overly agreeable chatbotsDenver's Catholic archdiocese, famously conservative, enters the Leo eraTrump interrumpe reunión del gabinete sobre Irán y el aumento de precios para hablar de plumonesSpeaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., center, speaks while House Majority Whip Tom Emmer R-Minn., right, and House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain, R-Mich., left, listen during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Friday, March 27, 2026, in Washington. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., walks to the Senate Chamber ahead of a vote on Capitol Hill on Sunday, March 22, 2026, in Washington. Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, walks to the chamber after meeting behind closed doors with fellow Republicans on the Homeland Security budget stalemate, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 26, 2026. Rep. Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., speaks at a House GOP news conference calling for the reopening of the Department of Homeland Security during the partial shutdown, Thursday, March 5, 2026, in Washington. Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., and a delegation of House Democrats, hold a news conference, Monday, March 9, 2026, in San Antonio, calling on the Department of Homeland Security to release families who are being detained at the Dilley Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Center. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., center, speaks while House Majority Whip Tom Emmer R-Minn., right, and House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain, R-Mich., left, listen during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Friday, March 27, 2026, in Washington. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., center, speaks while House Majority Whip Tom Emmer R-Minn., right, and House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain, R-Mich., left, listen during a news conference on Capitol Hill, Friday, March 27, 2026, in Washington. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., walks to the Senate Chamber ahead of a vote on Capitol Hill on Sunday, March 22, 2026, in Washington. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., walks to the Senate Chamber ahead of a vote on Capitol Hill on Sunday, March 22, 2026, in Washington. Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, walks to the chamber after meeting behind closed doors with fellow Republicans on the Homeland Security budget stalemate, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 26, 2026. Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, walks to the chamber after meeting behind closed doors with fellow Republicans on the Homeland Security budget stalemate, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 26, 2026. Rep. Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., speaks at a House GOP news conference calling for the reopening of the Department of Homeland Security during the partial shutdown, Thursday, March 5, 2026, in Washington. Rep. Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., speaks at a House GOP news conference calling for the reopening of the Department of Homeland Security during the partial shutdown, Thursday, March 5, 2026, in Washington. Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., and a delegation of House Democrats, hold a news conference, Monday, March 9, 2026, in San Antonio, calling on the Department of Homeland Security to release families who are being detained at the Dilley Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Center. Rep. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., and a delegation of House Democrats, hold a news conference, Monday, March 9, 2026, in San Antonio, calling on the Department of Homeland Security to release families who are being detained at the Dilley Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Center. WASHINGTON — For several hours Friday, in the stillness before dawn, the Senate appeared to have finally figured out how toAn incensed Johnson marched out of his office Friday afternoon. He angrily rebuked the plan that the Senate had unanimously agreed to as a “joke.”John Thune , R-S.D., had negotiated after weeks of effort, and was the latest abrupt turn in a funding saga that has bedeviled top Republicans for much of the year. The collapse of the deal leaves Congress, now on a two-week spring break, with no easy way out of the impasse that has putinto a shutdown since mid-February. It also has exposed a rare rupture between the two Republican leaders in Congress, testing their alliances as they labor to move another set ofThune had a deal with Democratic senators after negotiating for weeks on their demands for new restrictions on the department’s immigration enforcement work. Offers were traded several times. The talks moved along at a stop-start pace. Votes failed again and again. Out of time and patience, senators essentially settled on a draw for the bill: They would not include funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE and for U.S. Border Patrol, while setting aside all the Democratic demands for new limits on the agencies. Thune pointed out that Congress had allotted money for immigration enforcement and he told reporters that “we can get at least a lot of the government opened up again and then we’ll go from there.”“I don’t know what the House will do,” the senator said early Friday as the deal came together.Rep. Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., said that on a GOP conference call that morning to discuss their path forward, a few dozen members ranging from moderates to hard-line conservatives spoke in opposition to what the Senate had done. “The Senate chickened out,” he said. “The cowards there, only a few of them in the middle of the night with I think only three to five senators present on the floor, chickened out because they wanted to go home for two weeks. We need to raise the bar.”The bitter split threatens to make the job for Republican leaders more difficult as they try to advance their priorities while they still have guaranteed control of both chambers. Trump has said that legislation to imposeon voting is his top priority, but there is no real path for that plan in the Senate with its 60-vote threshold for advancing legislation. Some Republicans have pushed instead for a budget package that could potentially put some parts of the voter ID law in place. Republicans are also contemplating how to pass an expected request from the White House to fund the war with Iran that could Meanwhile, the flop of the funding deal has given Democrats another chance to pin the partial shutdown on House Republicans. “They know this is a continuation of the shutdown because the Senate is gone,” said Massachusetts Rep. Katherine Clark, the No. 2 Democratic leader. “So they know fully well what they’re doing.” It is not clear what the Senate will do next. A quick resumption of talks is unlikely. Negotiations ended acrimoniously on both sides, with each blaming the other for moving the goalposts along the way. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York said he was proud of his caucus for “holding the line.” But Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, who leads the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Democrats were “intransigent and unreasonable.” Thune said he believed that Democrats never wanted a deal and would not vote for ICE funding under any circumstances.The dynamic left senators convinced that the deal was the only way to move past their disagreements and reopen DHS. But House Republicans on Friday night seemed to revel in the fact they had defied the wishes of the Senate. GOP members said that they work from a perspective that is closer to the will of their constituents. To Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-N.C., the Senate’s proposal was “nothing more than unconditional surrender masquerading as a solution.” She said the House ”will not bend itself into submission by acquiescing.”“This takes two chambers to get the job done,” said Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, a moderate Republican. “Apparently, there’s not enough communication between those chambers.”
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