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White House Urges House to Quickly Fund D.H.S.

The call amounted to a rebuke of Speaker Mike Johnson, who has delayed action on a homeland security spending bill and suggested this week that it needed changes.

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The memo calls for the “immediate passage” of a stalled bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security.

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Salwan Georges for The New York Times

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Michael Gold

Reporting from the Capitol

April 28, 2026,

9:35 p.m. ET

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The White House on Tuesday urged the House to immediately pass a stalled bipartisan spending bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, which Republicans have refused to take up since the Senate passed it nearly a month ago.

The request, in a memo sent to members of Congress by the White House’s budget office, amounted to a rebuke of Speaker Mike Johnson, who has delayed action on the measure even as the homeland security shutdown has dragged into its 10th week. It came a day after he suggested that he wanted to make modifications to the measure that could further slow its path to enactment.

In the memo, a copy of which was viewed by The New York Times, the Trump administration appeared to dismiss Mr. Johnson’s idea, calling for the “immediate passage” of the measure “as passed by the Senate.” That bill contains no funding for immigration enforcement after Democrats refused to support that without restrictions on federal agents’ tactics and conduct, which the G.O.P. would not agree to.

The White House also directed the House to quickly approve a Republican budget blueprint that would pave the way for a filibuster-proof bill that would establish a $70-billion multiyear fund for immigration enforcement, which Republicans view as a key component of ending the shutdown.

The memo, first reported by Punchbowl News, came as the House was paralyzed by Republican infighting that kept Mr. Johnson from bringing the budget plan — or any of the other major policy items he had scheduled for the week — to the floor. House leaders canceled planned votes on Tuesday afternoon, as it was unclear whether they had enough support to clear a key procedural hurdle to bring up several bills.

That inaction threatened to prolong the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, even as Mr. Johnson and Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the Republican majority leader, jointly endorsed a two-step plan weeks ago to end it.

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