The Senate voted early Friday morning to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security, taking a step to reopen large parts of an agency that has been partially shut down for more than a month. The vote came hours after President Donald Trump said that he was ordering officials to pay Transportation Security Administration officers even though Congress had not appropriated funds,

Fox News chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram has the latest on the congressional battle over DHS funding on ‘The Will Cain Show.’

House Republicans — caught by surprise by the Senate’s early-morning deal on Department of Homeland Security spending — signaled they wouldn’t be jammed by the other chamber on their way out the door to a two-week recess,

House Republicans moved Friday to further extend the six-week shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security by rejecting a Senate bill that would fund the vast majority of DHS agencies through September.

After a 42-day partial government shutdown, the Senate passed a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security and pay TSA, excluding ICE and Border Patrol funding.

After senators worked late into the night to approve a deal to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, House Republicans rejected it.

Instead, Senate Republicans accepted what Democrats have been offering for weeks — cash for all of DHS except for ICE and part of Customs and Border Protection. The Senate approved the funding package by a voice vote and is now expected to begin a scheduled two-week recess.

In a remarkable 24 hours in Washington, House Republicans snubbed a bipartisan funding deal cut by their own Senate GOP counterparts and instead approved an entirely different plan — prolonging the Department of Homeland Security shutdown.