Trump Signs DHS Bill in Ice Border Patrol Funding Reconciliation

President Trump signed a House-passed bill that funds most of the Department of Homeland Security and ends the longest shutdown of a U.S. government agency in history. The ice border patrol funding reconciliation also moves pay back toward thousands of federal security workers after the administration warned money would run out after Thursday without new funding.

Trump and House Republicans

The House vote to fund DHS was described as an easy one after House Republicans changed their position and backed the bill. Speaker Mike Johnson said, "The equations that we solved on legislation this week were virtually impossible." He also said, "Many of you said it couldn't be done. But we got it done because ultimately we just used patience and frankly, prayer."

Lisa Desjardins said, "The Senate had passed weeks ago repeatedly a DHS funding bill." She added, "House Republicans wanted more of a guarantee that ICE would eventually be funded," and, "The ICE funding was in fact a real issue for the GOP."

ICE and Border Patrol

The Senate-passed bill had funded most of DHS except ICE and Border Patrol, which left those parts of the department outside the deal for weeks. Democrats had triggered the shutdown initially over ICE conduct, and there were no official changes at this point to ICE conduct.

For DHS employees, pay should start flowing and work should resume as normal in the next few days. The funding deal leaves ICE and Border Patrol outside the Senate bill’s original structure, while a separate deadline on FISA authority was looming at midnight.

FISA at Midnight

The immediate result is a partial reopening for DHS workers and the return of pay for thousands whose salaries had been at risk. The broader fight over ICE remains unresolved in the funding terms, so the practical question for affected employees is whether their work and pay stabilize over the next few days under the new law.