KVIG Informative

After a record 75-day partial shutdown, Congress passed and President Trump signed a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security. TSA workers will be paid. ICE did not get the new enforcement money it wanted.

President Trump signed a DHS funding bill into law Thursday evening, ending the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history. The Department of Homeland Security had been operating without a full appropriation since October 1, 2025 — a 75-day stretch that left TSA agents, Border Patrol officers, FEMA staff, and tens of thousands of other DHS employees working without pay or facing furloughs.

The sticking point throughout the shutdown was immigration enforcement money. A faction of House Republicans had demanded significant new funding for ICE detention beds and deportation operations as a condition of reopening the agency. The Senate had passed a bipartisan bill without those provisions. House Speaker Mike Johnson argued the Senate bill would effectively orphan ICE’s operations from the rest of DHS. The House and Senate remained deadlocked for weeks.

What broke the logjam was the White House itself. Trump’s own budget office sent a memo to Capitol Hill urging House Republicans to concede, warning that TSA and other DHS components were running out of money to keep workers paid. The House passed the bill Thursday afternoon. Trump signed it that evening. The bill that passed did not include new ICE enforcement funding.

Trump also signed a short-term extension of the foreign surveillance program known as FISA alongside the DHS bill, reauthorizing intelligence collection authorities that had been set to expire.

The resolution does not end the underlying political conflict. The current measure is a stopgap, not a full-year appropriation. The Republicans who demanded new ICE funding did not get it in this bill, but the issue will return in the next round of spending negotiations. For now, the airports are staffed and DHS is open. The fight over immigration enforcement funding moves to the next fiscal deadline.