Name: DHS shutdown enters 'new legislative territory' after Speaker Johnson rejects Senate deal
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But we do have to begin with the breaking news on the partial government shutdown, with President Trump now trying to bypass Congress and unilaterally fund TSA as Congressional Gridlock threatens to extend the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security and the historic travel chaos at airports all across the country.

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The president officially delivering that order after Speaker Mike Johnson rejected a deal that Senate Republicans passed overnight with Democratic support that would have funded the TSA and most of DHS, but

Speaker Johnson instead is going to have the House vote to fund all of DHS for 60 days, including ICE and Border Patrol.

The move essentially ensures more Gridlock, but Speaker Johnson telling reporters his plan has the president's support.

This gambit that was done last night is a joke.

We're going to put a clean, simple, continuing resolution that will go until May 22nd.

It's just a number of weeks to allow for all those who sacrificially served the country and protect other Americans.

All these agencies, 10 agencies under the Department of Homeland Security, will continue at their current funding levels to make sure that they are protected.

We're not playing political games on this.

We encourage some of our Democrats—hopefully we'll have some of our Democrats in the House—who go along with this and stop the pain that's being forced upon these people.

I spoke to the president a few moments ago.

He understands exactly what we're doing and why, and he supports it.

Now, the speaker's pitch comes after House Conservatives expressed outrage over the Senate deal.

Again, it's absolutely offensive to the people that we represent that the Senate would send over a bill that doesn't fund Border Patrol and the core components of ICE.

I mean, could the Senate be any more lazy than to send to us a bill that doesn't do the job and then leave town?

So we're going to stand up and say no to that.

Bottom line is this is not a—this deal is bad for America.

The president has already said he's going to fund TSA out of the funds he has, so we're going to—it's not going to affect the airports if we don't do this today.

Democratic leadership says they will not support the House's new plan, calling it dead on arrival in the Senate.

It comes as frustration and long lines persist at the nation's airports, with the rate of TSA officer callouts reaching its highest point of the shutdown yesterday, surpassing 30% at five major airports.

Joining me now is our NBC News team chief Capitol Hill correspondent Ryan Nobles, White House correspondent Monica Alba, senior Homeland Security correspondent Julia Ainsley, and

national correspondent Aaron Gilchrist is on the ground in Atlanta at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

Thanks to all of you for starting us off on this developing story.

Ryan, we just heard a defiant Speaker Johnson saying House Republicans are going to reject the deal the Senate unanimously passed last night.

Take us inside Johnson's thinking and the pressure that he's getting from the House Freedom Caucus.

Well, we've entered new legislative territory here, Kristen,

and I'm not sure exactly how we get out of it.

I think what we've seen established here between the House and Senate is that there isn't a piece of legislation that could get the 60 votes in the Senate necessary to open the Department of Homeland Security,

and we could be in a ping-pong battle between the House and the Senate for an indefinite amount of time.

John Thune and Mike Johnson spoke last night at 3:00 AM when the Senate decided to take this route of passing the majority of the Department of Homeland Security budget save for Customs and Border Patrol and ICE.

Something happened this morning when Mike Johnson came into this chamber and had conversations with his conservative rank and file that made him think that it was a no-go, that they weren't going to get it done.

But every time you talk to either a Republican or Democrat about this, they blame the other side.

They say the other side is at fault here,

and at some point, someone's going to have to stand up and present some leadership to try and find a way out of this.

And I asked Speaker Johnson about that today, and this is his response.

The American people are just sick and tired of every one of you, both Republicans and Democrats, coming to this podium and blaming the other side.

People have been standing in lines three, four, five hours at a time.

There are TSA workers that are selling their plasma.

At what point is a leader on either side going to stand up and say, "We have a path forward that everyone will agree to?" This vote today will extend the shutdown under any circumstances.

The House Republicans have now voted that today will be the fourth time to fund the Homeland Security.

You can hold up the record, look at the Democrats.

Last night, yesterday afternoon, we gave them a chance to fund Homeland Security.

You know how many House Democrats voted yes?

So the sum total of all of this, Kristen, is that this shutdown is going to continue.

I spoke to a gentleman who was in line at an airport in Houston to fly to Dallas.

He actually had to take a train to get to the end of the security line.

When he got there, the folks in line told him it was at least a four-hour wait.

It was easier for him just to drive to Dallas as opposed to wait in that line.

There are stories like that all over the country.

Obviously, these TSA officers are being forced to make difficult choices.

And the one other point I would make about this, Kristen, is yes, the president's emergency executive order could get money in the paychecks of TSA officers as soon as Monday.

But what about FEMA, frontline FEMA workers?

What about folks that work in cybersecurity?

What about the resources that are necessary for the Coast Guard?

All of that funding still remains up in the air,

and here on Capitol Hill, there is no solution to get us to the point where all of that can be rectified.

And Ryan, I think your question to Speaker Johnson was so poignant and right on target.

Americans are outraged by the finger-pointing.

They had a number of demands on ICE reforms that they wanted in that Senate bill.

They did get Republicans in the Senate to agree to pass a bill that did not include ICE funding.

Do they feel like they're winning this issue or losing because they didn't get the changes that they wanted to see?

I think that the outcome that we saw last night in the Senate was the outcome that Democrats were looking for very early on in this process.

They had offered a bill very similar to this, which removed all of the funding for ICE and CBP and funded the rest of the Department of Homeland Security to give the opportunity to negotiate these issues going down the road.

But Democrats also need a bit of a reality check here.

The Republicans are not going to bend on some of these things that they're begging for, masks in particular.

That is a red line that Republicans have said that they're not going to cross.

And there have been changes that Democrats have gained through this process.

Christine Ohm is no longer the Secretary of Homeland Security.

They've ended, for the most part, these roving patrols in places like Minneapolis.

There is a commitment to TSA or ICE officers wearing body cams in the near future.

So it's not as if nothing came out of this back and forth.

So that's why, again, I get back to this idea of leaders on both sides need to recognize the reality of where we are in, how angry and upset the American people are,

and find a path to a solution, which just still seems to be impossible to find.

Well, great job on holding their feet to the fire on Capitol Hill, Ryan Nobles.

Thank you so much for joining us as we enter yet another weekend with this shutdown ongoing.

Monica Alba, I turn to you at the White House.

So the president, for his part, has now issued basically a presidential memorandum that would unilaterally fund TSA.

This comes after he spoke to House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Johnson says he would, in fact, support the short-term CR.

Yeah, Kristen, the president kind of previewed this yesterday in that cabinet meeting saying that if Congress couldn't come up with some kind of deal, that the White House would take some "drastic measures." They discussed a number of ideas,

and this was one of them, which is basically to take the unspent funds that still exist within the so-called One Big Beautiful bill, which passed last year, and

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