House Republicans are preparing to reject a Senate-passed funding bill to reopen most of the Department of Homeland Security.
“It’s not going to pass as it is,” Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) told The Post less than an hour after former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows posted on X that the DHS bill was “dead in the House.”
House GOP lawmakers huddled for a conference call on Friday with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to deliberate over the funding bill approved by the Senate earlier this morning.
Johnson is reportedly considering a stopgap measure to fund all DHS agencies — including ICE and CBP — for 60 days, but that would require the Senate to reconvene.
The Senate-passed measure would open DHS agencies except Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as portions of Custom and Border Protection.
Senate Democrats have held up the funding for 42 days in protest of ICE and CBP-involved fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota earlier this year.
One House GOPer griped that the Senate “shouldn’t have left town” before the bill reached President Trump’s desk.
