House Speaker Mike Johnson said Republicans would pursue a two-track strategy to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security.

House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Republican leader John Thune said Republicans would pursue a two-track strategy to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security, days after Johnson had dismissed a Senate-passed stopgap bill as “a joke.”

The plan called for the House to move the Senate-approved measure that funds most of DHS now, excluding U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and then use budget reconciliation to fund those enforcement agencies over the coming weeks or months, according to a joint statement from Johnson and Thune posted on X Wednesday.

The development came as DHS continued operating in a partial shutdown that began in mid-February and snarled airport security, with President Donald Trump separately signing a memo to pay Transportation Security Administration (TSA) employees amid the standoff.

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