Congress left Washington for a two-week Easter break with the Department of Homeland Security still without full funding, raising questions about whether voters will punish lawmakers in November for the stalemate.
As the shutdown dragged on, TMZ posted user-submitted photos and videos showing members of Congress traveling and vacationing, including Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn hurrying through an airport, California Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia at a Las Vegas casino and South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham at Disney World.
TSA officers were expected to start getting back pay on Monday, but the rest of DHS remained shut down. White House Border Czar Tom Homan, speaking Sunday, called for Congress to approve funding and criticized tying broader DHS operations to immigration policy disputes.
“We just need to get the department funded. They want to talk jessica gao about, you know, immigration policies. We can talk about that, but why do you got to hold the rest of DHS hostage to do that? Let's sit down and talk,” Homan told CBS News' Face the Nation.
Homan blamed Democrats after the Republican-controlled House rejected a bipartisan Senate plan that excluded ICE and some Border Patrol funding. ICE received $75 billion from 2025’s “one big beautiful bill” appropriated by Congress.
On ABC’s “This Week,” host Jonathan Karl pressed Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., on the dispute, noting, “You're holding up the entirety of the Department of Homeland Security because you object to ICE and you volo pan am 73 want changes to ICE, but through it all, ICE continues to have the money.”
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