Trump signs DHS funding bill, ending 76-day partial shutdown

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a bill funding most Department of Homeland Security agencies through Sept. 30, 2026, ending a 76-day partial shutdown that had halted non-emergency Coast Guard operations and left thousands of civilian employees without pay.

The House passed the legislation by voice vote hours before Trump signed it. The bill funds agencies including the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Coast Guard, the Transportation Security Administration and the Secret Service, but excludes U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol — the two agencies at the center of the partisan standoff that triggered the shutdown.

DHS has been without routine funds since Feb. 14, 2026. The shutdown began after Trump's immigration crackdown in Minneapolis led to fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens by federal agents, prompting Democrats to refuse funding for immigration enforcement without new restrictions on tactics such as raids in sensitive locations and the use of masks by ICE agents.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, proposed the bill more than 70 days ago. "It is about damn time," she said.

Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Kevin Lunday told lawmakers on Tuesday that Coast Guard members faced "severe hardship" because of the uncertainty about their paychecks. Active-duty service members continued to receive pay during the shutdown through funding shifts, but the Coast Guard could not pay some bills, including electricity bills for its 6,000 family housing units. In the past week, some Coast Guard families had their electricity shut off.

The Coast Guard's civilian employees — nearly 10,000 — went without a full paycheck from Feb. 16 through early April, when Trump signed an emergency order to pay them. That emergency funding was set to run out this week.

"Our total workforce has spent a majority of this fiscal year operating under uncertainty, fear and anger caused by a lapse of appropriations," Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard Phil Waldron said during a hearing Tuesday on the Coast Guard budget.

More than 1,000 TSA officers have quit since the shutdown began, according to Airlines for America, the U.S. airlines trade group that on Wednesday called on Congress to fully fund the department. "The urgency to provide predictable and stable funding for TSA is growing stronger by the day," the group said in a statement. "Time and time again, our nation's aviation workers and customers have been the victim of Congress' failure to do their jobs."

House Republicans on April 29 adopted a budget resolution, 215-211, to provide $70 billion for immigration enforcement and deportations for the remainder of Trump's term, which ends in January 2029. The resolution unlocks the path for the bipartisan DHS funding bill by separating immigration enforcement funding into a budget reconciliation process.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said isolating immigration-related money is "offensive to the men and women who serve in ICE and Border Patrol, and are serving this country every single day."

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who had previously called the bill a "joke," said that with the new budget process for immigration enforcement on its own, he was ready to pass it "with no crazy Democrat reforms."