House Passes 6-Week Stopgap Bill to Fund DHS

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a stopgap plan to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for 60 days on March 27. It passed on a 213–203 vote. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) proposed the short-term bill to fund the entire DHS after he rejected a Senate-passed measure that would have funded most of the department, aside from its immigration enforcement operations. “This gambit that was done last night is a joke,” Johnson told reporters on Friday. “I’m quite convinced that it can’t be that every Senate Republican read the language of this bill.” Johnson denied that House and Senate Republicans were at odds over the bill and blamed Democrats such as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) for the partial shutdown of DHS, which entered day 42 on Friday....