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, instead proposing a roughly eight-week stopgap measure to buy more time for negotiations.
The Senate’s amended bill, which would fund all of the department except Immigration and Customs Enforcement and most of Customs and Border Protection, received a largely chilly reaction among House Republicans on Friday morning. The Senate passed it by voice vote hours earlier.
The Rules Committee is planning to convene later on Friday to report a rule for consideration of the yet-to-be unveiled stopgap measure, expected to run through May 22. The House would then vote Saturday on the continuing resolution.
