NEW: House Republicans Reject Senate GOP’s ‘Garbage’ DHS Deal With Democrats

House Republicans slammed the Senate’s Department of Homeland Security funding deal on Friday and signaled they will refuse to bring it to the floor, leaving Washington headed for a two-week recess with the shutdown still rippling through airports and federal operations.

Rep. Lisa McClain, chair of the House Republican Conference, told NOTUS the Senate package was “garbage” and said House Republicans would not vote on it. McClain said Republicans have an alternate plan and would discuss it on a conference call Friday.

The House blowback comes after more than 40 days of Senate gridlock, driven by Democrats blocking full DHS funding while demanding immigration enforcement changes, with a heavy focus on Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The stalemate broke in the early morning hours Friday when the Senate unanimously passed a stopgap that funds much of DHS while leaving out ICE and parts of Customs and Border Protection. Democrats’ policy demands did not make it into the bill.

House GOP leaders said the Senate bill still falls short of what the House has been pushing for: full funding for the department as a whole.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said the House would keep pressing its own approach while negotiating next steps with the Senate.

“We’ve been consistent all along in the House that we want to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security,” Scalise said. “It’s why we passed a bill yesterday to do that. The Senate passed a different bill yesterday to fall short of that, so we have differences and we’re still working through how to resolve our differences.”

Other Republicans were blunter, accusing the Senate of handing the House a bad deal and then bolting town.

“What the Senate sent over was a terrible deal, made all the more insulting by the fact that they immediately skipped town to start their vacations early,” Rep. Brandon Gill told NOTUS in a text message.

Fox confirms that the House Republican leadership is proposing a two-month, clean extension of all funding for DHS, including ICE. This is NOT what all 100 senators agreed to last night. If the House were to adopt this plan, they’d have to do it with GOP votes. Many House…

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) March 27, 2026

The House Freedom Caucus piled on during a gaggle outside the chamber, arguing the Senate plan leaves key enforcement tools unfunded at a time when border security and deportation operations remain central to President Trump’s agenda.

“It is absolutely offensive to the people that we represent that the Senate could send over a bill that doesn’t fund border control and the core components of ICE,” Rep. Chip Roy said.

“I mean, could the Senate be any more lazy than to send to us a bill that doesn’t do the job and then leave town? So, we’re going to stand up and say no to that, we’re going to send back a bill that’s responsible,” Roy added.

The Senate bill is a non-starter. We’ll send something back to stand with @CBP & @ICEgov – perhaps other important provisions. But we’re not accepting the garbage from the Senate. pic.twitter.com/2upBegzJVy

— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) March 27, 2026

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Rep. Byron Donalds called the Senate deal “nuts” and argued the political pressure is not landing on senators the way it is on regular travelers dealing with long TSA lines.

“If the senators got to get back on their private jets to come back to D.C., so be it. Because by the way, America, most senators don’t go through TSA. They get on a PJ,” he said.

Democrats, meanwhile, said they were prepared to take the Senate deal as a way to reopen major parts of DHS, even as they continued to oppose more funding for ICE. Rep. Nanette Barragán told NOTUS, “Hopefully it’s just noise,” adding, “I can’t vote for ICE funding since they are out of control.”

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said House and Senate Democrats are aligned behind the Senate package and blamed Republicans for allowing the shutdown to drag on.

With the Senate already out for recess and the House refusing to accept a bill that leaves ICE and border operations on the sidelines, the next fight is now over what “fully fund DHS” actually looks like and who, politically, pays the price for the chaos that follows.

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