House passes eight-week DHS deal to punt shutdown back to Senate

The House voted on party lines to pass a short-term funding patch for the Department of Homeland Security late Friday night, rebelling against a plan from Senate Republicans that omitted funding for immigration enforcement agencies.

House Republican leaders pushed a bill, through a rare procedural vote that bypasses an hour of debate and a second vote, that would fund all of DHS until May 22, punting the burden to reopen the government back to the Senate, which left for its scheduled two-week recess on Friday after sending over their bipartisan deal that was swiftly rejected by lower chamber Republicans.

The Rules Committee reconvened on Friday afternoon to tee up a party-line vote, that bypassed typical House rules to require a procedural vote before final passage. The committee adopted the rule as an amendment to the Senate-passed bill, which allowed them to use this rare procedural tool and pass it through