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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been unfunded for 73 days.  The administration announced that it cannot continue to pay DHS employees past the end of this month absent enactment of appropriations. A number of House Republicans, including members of the far-right Freedom Caucus, have warned that they will not vote for the Senate-passed FY 2026 DHS partial appropriations bill until the budget reconciliation bill, which will fund the Department’s immigration enforcement agencies, has advanced quite far along in the legislative process.  But Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) hopes that if the House can pass the Senate’s FY 2027 budget resolution (the first step in moving a reconciliation bill), that will demonstrate enough progress to convince his conference to pass the DHS appropriations bill. It is possible that the attack at the White House Correspondents Association dinner last weekend will add to the pressure to fund the Department.