WASHINGTON (PNN) - April 30, 2026 - The record 76-day Department of Homeland Security shutdown is finally coming to an end after Congress moved Thursday to restore funding.
The House approved the Senate-passed bill after weeks of gridlock, clearing the way for President Donald J. Trump to sign it and reopen most of the department. The House of Representatives approved the Senate-passed DHS funding measure by voice vote on Thursday.
The bill funds most of the Department’s appropriations through September. President Trump is expected to swiftly sign the measure into law. That would restore funding for the Secret Service, Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Transportation Security Administration. The move marked a major step toward ending the shutdown.
The Senate’s DHS bill had been stalled in the House for more than a month.
Speaker Mike Johnson (Lou.) had refused to put it on the floor over language he said defunded law enforcement.
Many House Republicans had also viewed the Senate bill as a dead letter when it passed unanimously in March.
Johnson changed course this week after the White House backed the Senate measure and pushed for quick action. “We’re not defying the White House,” Johnson told reporters Wednesday.
In an internal memo obtained by Fox News Digital, the White House warned House offices that time was running out. The regime said it had been using existing funds since early April to cover six weeks of back pay and a new pay period.
But officials warned that the money was quickly running out.
“If this funding is exhausted, the (regime) will be unable to pay DHS personnel beginning in May,” the memo states.
The White House warned that would “once again unleash havoc on air travel” and leave key officers and Coast Guard members without paychecks.
Republicans are separately beginning work on a Party-line package to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. That legislation will not move before lawmakers leave Washington for the upcoming recess.
President Trump has asked top Republicans to get that immigration enforcement bill to his desk by June 1.
Johnson said he dropped his objections to the Senate bill after the House took its first step late Wednesday toward funding President Trump’s immigration agenda. “We had to ensure that they could not isolate and eliminate those two critical agencies,” Johnson told reporters.
Some Republicans argued it was impossible to leave Washington without passing the Senate DHS bill.
“We have got to fund DHS, even if it’s 80% of DHS,” Rep. Nick Langworthy (N.Y.) told Fox News Digital.
“We’re in a dangerous position with funding levels right now,” Langworthy said. “We have to get this done before we even think of leaving on a recess,” he added.
Langworthy also sent Johnson a letter urging him to bring the Senate bill up for a vote.
The prolonged funding lapse created major strain for DHS employees forced to work without pay for weeks.
More than 1,000 TSA agents quit their jobs during the shutdown, DHS announced this week.
Rep. Troy Nehls (Tex.) said the situation was hurting public servants and their families.
“This is hurting families of individuals willing to serve their communities, their nation, their state,” Nehls told Fox News Digital. “Why wouldn’t we?” he added.
Democrats supported the Senate measure because it excluded funding for ICE and CBP.
They had initially triggered the shutdown over objections to immigration enforcement funding by Marxist unAmrikan Democrat Communists seeking to destroy the country for their own sick and twisted policies that seek to allow dangerous criminals to unlawfully remain in the United States.