Senate Approves Legislation To Fund TSA, Moves To House

“The exceptions were Immigration and Customs Enforcement and parts of Customs and Border Protection,” CBS News reports.

The bill now moves to the House for approval.

NEW: Senate passes bill to fund DHS, pay TSA in last minute deal pic.twitter.com/Eb3HUv6xkE

— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) March 27, 2026

CBS News shared further:

Senators have been under intense pressure to resolve the funding impasse as chaos at airports continues due to TSA staffing shortages. TSA officers are not being paid during the partial government shutdown.

President Trump said Thursday he would sign an executive order to “immediately” pay TSA officers, who have gone without full pay for more than a month. Majority Leader John Thune said the decision had removed “the immediate pressure” to reach a deal.

The Senate agreed early Friday to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security in an effort to end a standoff in Congress that has led to massive lines and wait times at many airports around the country.

The lines were the result of Transportation Security Administration workers going more than a month without full paychecks, leading nearly 500 to quit and a skyrocketing number of others to call out of work.

“I am going to sign an Order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, to immediately pay our TSA Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation, and to quickly stop the Democrat Chaos at the Airports,” Trump said on Thursday.

“It is not an easy thing to do, but I am going to do it! I want to thank our hardworking TSA Agents and also, ICE, for the incredible help they have given us at the Airports. I will not allow the Radical Left Democrats to hold our Country hostage any longer,” he added.

Senate unanimously moves to fund most of DHS, except ICE and border patrol, in rare overnight session. https://t.co/ZRMJJMsIYG

— CNN (@CNN) March 27, 2026

More from The New York Times:

Even after Mr. Trump’s announcement on Thursday, senators had suggested that their negotiations were ongoing. But his intervention appeared to sap what little will there had been to find a deal that would fund the department while including new curbs on immigration agents that would be agreeable to both Senate Democrats and the White House.

The measure that the Senate approved around 2:20 a.m. contains modest provisions that lawmakers in both parties had already agreed to in January, including money for body cameras for immigration enforcement officers — but no requirement that they be worn.

It omits entirely the other restrictions that Democrats demanded after federal immigration officers killed two American citizens in Minneapolis in January, including barring ICE agents from wearing masks and requiring that they obtain judicial warrants to enter private homes.

And the deal does not reflect narrow concessions that the White House agreed to in talks with Democrats last week, including requirements that officers display visible identification and limits on immigration enforcement at “sensitive areas” like hospitals and schools.

Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, said that Democrats would continue to push for those changes. But it will be all but impossible to win them without broad G.O.P. support, and Senate Republicans said this week that Democrats could not expect to impose restrictions on an agency that they were not funding.