House Republicans Reject Senate Deal To Restore Airport Security Funding

House Speaker Mike Johnson has rejected a Senate-passed bill to fund Homeland Security as a ‘joke’ and plans a vote on an alternative. The House was considering whether to approve funds to pay Transportation Security Administration agents and most other Homeland Security agencies after the Senate unanimously passed the measure early Friday morning. The deal does not include funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but the package puts no new limits on immigration enforcement, which has continued uninterrupted during the shutdown. TSA workers were set to miss a second paycheck Friday. Prior to the Senate bill’s passage, President Donald Trump said he would sign a separate order to pay the TSA agents immediately, but nothing has been signed yet.