Claudia Grisales

The Senate passed a plan five weeks ago to fund the agency, except for some immigration enforcement divisions that could not get through the House.

So the White House redirected government funds to pay DHS workers despite questions over the legality of that decision.

And now the agency was about to run out of that new money.

So the House had to act.

Well, you're seeing a politically contentious high stakes proposal meet head on with the Congress that's struggling to legislate, especially during an election year.

We first saw a breakdown in bipartisan funding talks for DHS in mid-February and then another breakdown for Republicans who could not agree on a way out of a shutdown.

The Senate passed a plan five weeks ago to fund the agency, except for some immigration enforcement divisions, as we mentioned, but that could not get through the House.

So the White House redirected government funds to pay DHS workers despite questions over the legality of that decision, and now the agency was removed.

to run out of that new money.

So the House had to act.

Well, Johnson finally reached that deal with the more conservative members of his conference who were holding out to fund all of DHS.

Republicans had been working on a special partisan legislative vehicle known as Reconciliation.

That bill would include money for immigration enforcement for the rest of President Trump's term.

And Johnson sided with those conservative members initially calling the Senate-passed DHS bill a joke.

but he reversed course as reconciliation dragged on.

Now he says that that process is moving.

Republicans could also approve that additional funding.

Yeah, exactly.

Because Republicans have such tight margins in both chambers, they still need votes from Democrats.

And as you may recall, DHS was on track to be part of this massive bipartisan spending bill at the start of the year.