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The DHS budget measure stalled in the Senate for weeks as Democrats demanded immigration enforcement reforms in exchange for their votes to approve funding.
The chamber finally broke the impasse after Republicans agreed to approve funding for most of the agency aside from some components that included ICE and Border Patrol.
House Speaker Mike Johnson dismissed the Senate measure as a, quote, joke.
Instead, the House passed a measure to temporarily extend funding in full for the Department of Homeland Security through late May.
The vote effectively ensured that the ongoing shutdown at DHS continues with no clear end in sight.
Lawmakers have already left Washington for a planned two-week recess.
The plan directs full-year funding for the Departments of Defense, Transportation, and Health and Human Services and more.
But it funds the Department of Homeland Security for only two weeks to allow lawmakers to negotiate new rules over how immigration officers do their jobs.
Lawmakers are facing the daunting task of reaching a bipartisan deal to address public outcry over the deaths of Renee Macklin Good and Alex Preddy in Minneapolis.
Democrats have elicited demands they want in exchange for funding DHS.
They include new rules for the use of force for agents to remove their masks and put body cameras on.
Republicans will likely push back.