Providing for disposition of the Senate amendment to the bill (H.R. 7147) making further consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from Minnesota for yielding me the customary 30 minutes, and I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, I want to say to the American people: If you woke up this morning not knowing who to blame for this shutdown, you will go to bed tonight with no doubt. It is House Republicans and Speaker Johnson. I mean, what the hell are you guys doing? This is nuts.

This is not complicated, Mr. Speaker. There is a bill right now, passed unanimously by the Republican-controlled Senate, to end this shutdown. It is a bill to fund FEMA, TSA, the Coast Guard, and other lawful agencies in DHS. That bill was unanimously passed and was orchestrated by Republicans who control the United States Congress. You control the House, you control the Senate, and you control the White House. You control everything.

Republican Leader John Thune was the one who wrote it, scheduled it, offered it. The Republican was presiding over the Senate floor when the bill came up. Not a single Senator, including not a single Republican Senator, objected to moving this bill forward--not a single one.

That bill was sent to us today. What did Speaker Mike Johnson do? He said no. He said let's keep those airport lines long. He said let's not pay TSA or FEMA or the Coast Guard or CISA. Why? Because he would rather bow down to a handful of batshit crazy, rightwing lunatics who don't care about who they hurt. They are demanding even more money for ICE, an agency that already has a $75 billion slush fund--$75 billion. My God, that is more money than almost every nation on Earth spends on their entire military budget per year.

In what world does ICE need more money? Why would we give more money to an agency that a Federal judge says has violated more judicial orders this year than ``some Federal agencies have violated in their entire existence''?

We have seen ICE and CBP agents break into homes without warrants. I thought you guys cared about civil liberties. We have seen them arresting and detaining American citizens and publicly executing people on the street. None of you are moved by that?

Why the hell would we give them more money without real reforms? All we are saying is that we should fund agencies that actually protect the public and keep this country running.

The Senate passed a bill that does just that. It is ready for House floor action. We could end this shutdown for good tonight if Speaker Johnson would just put it on the floor. There is no question that it would pass with massive, sweeping bipartisan support. I have talked to so many of you who told me you support what the Republican Senate did.

Speaker Johnson refuses to do that. I swear, he is actually doing everything, and I mean everything, in his power to prevent reopening DHS tonight.

Republican leadership has even gone so far as to change the very definition of ``time'' itself. They had to rig the rules to pretend today is tomorrow so they could jam this garbage CR through faster and then get out of town.

This CR, Mr. Speaker, is a nonstarter. It is dead on arrival in the Senate. Even some House Republicans have already acknowledged that this plan, to quote them, is stupid. You know it is dead on arrival in the Senate.

Speaker Johnson needs to grow a freaking spine, and we need some adult leadership in this House.

Mr. Speaker, put the Senate bill on the floor. Let us pass it with a large majority of House votes. Let us end this Republican shutdown now.

I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Let us just restate for the record that ICE and CBP have billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars, years of funding. You can't bring yourself to help feed hungry children or make childcare more affordable or healthcare more affordable, but you have no problem with giving ICE, an agency that cannot follow the law, billions and billions of dollars. Shame on you. Your priorities are all screwed up.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Menefee).

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

First, Mr. Speaker, this bill does not defund ICE. There is like a gazillion dollars in the big, ugly bill, so that is just a lie.

The gentleman talked about what happened in this Chamber. I will tell you something that happened in this Chamber. The President of the United States sent an angry mob here to attack our democracy, and that gentleman said that it was a normal tourist visit. I won't ever forget that.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Jeffries), the Democratic leader, a real leader.

Mr. Speaker, I just would like to respond by saying the American people know what is going on with the Republicans, and I trust their wisdom. That is why Republicans are the most unpopular party in the country, and the President's popularity has never been lower. They can't afford you. You don't know how to govern.

In fact, if the American people could, they would sue the Republicans for malpractice.

Everything is going up. Gas prices are up. Housing is up. Groceries are up. Everything is up. They can't afford you.

Enough of this. Enough of this.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman from Massachusetts (Ms. Clark), our Democratic whip.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, let me just say I disagree with the true leader of the Republican Party, who I thought was Mike Johnson, but apparently, the gentlewoman corrected us; it is not. But let me just say the issue for us--first of all, let me say: ICE is being funded. Stop the BS. Stop the misinformation that somehow ICE is not being funded. Mr. Speaker, $85 billion, that is what they have.

That is what they have. The normal budget is $10 billion a year. It is $85 billion. Only Republicans would say that somehow that is not enough and that they are being defunded.

I will tell you the reason why we have concerns and are demanding reforms. It is because ICE is terrorizing communities and attacking people, including U.S. citizens. You should care about that.

A U.S. citizen went on his lunch break, and masked Federal agents detained him in a choke hold. Federal agents ripped a woman from her car as she screamed that she was a U.S. citizen. ICE agents in Minnesota ate lunch in a small-town Mexican restaurant. When they were done enjoying the meal, they detained the workers who served them.

In California, a U.S. citizen on his way to work at a food bank pulled over to warn Federal agents that they should wrap up their stop of another individual before school-age children gathered for the bus. Moments later, an ICE officer shot him in the back. You said nothing about that.

In Chicago, ICE agents stormed an apartment complex by helicopters as families slept and deployed chemical agents near a public school-- nothing from your side.

In Minnesota, ICE agents shot and killed Renee Good, a U.S. citizen, after she complied with agents' orders to move her vehicle away from the protest.

In Minnesota, two ICE agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, a U.S. citizen and a nurse, as he was exercising his constitutional rights.

Mr. Speaker, ICE is wreaking havoc on people all across this country, trampling over their constitutional rights. There was a time when you cared about the Constitution. U.S. citizens across this country are carrying their passports out of fear of being detained without cause. There are reports of Native Americans who are U.S. citizens being detained by ICE.

Thirty-two people died in ICE custody in 2025. It was ICE's deadliest year in two decades. In just the first 9 months of Trump's second term, over 170 U.S. citizens--U.S. citizens--were detained by ICE. Nearly 20 were children. Two dozen were held without being able to call a lawyer or their families.

Citizens are being dragged, tackled, beaten, and tased.

I reserve the balance of my time, Mr. Speaker.

Mr. Speaker, I would suggest to the gentleman that he check with his staff. ICE has $85 billion.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Neguse), who is a distinguished member of the Rules Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the gentleman from Colorado.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, after listening to the gentleman, I didn't know that Senate Republicans voted to open the southern border. I mean, Ted Cruz voted to open the southern border? Boy, that is something. I don't know.

Mr. Speaker, I am going to urge that we defeat the previous question. If we do, I will offer an amendment to the rule to adopt the Senate amendment to H.R. 7147, the bipartisan compromise bill that the Senate unanimously passed this morning to fund all law-abiding agencies under the Department of Homeland Security.

This bipartisan--I know that is a tough word for some of you--but this bipartisan solution would make sure that TSA employees are paid, FEMA employees are paid, cybersecurity employees are paid, and our Coast Guard is paid.

If Speaker Johnson would just put the damn bill on the floor of the House for an up-or-down vote, we all know it would pass. That is what this motion does. It simply allows for a vote to adopt the compromise bill that just passed unanimously through the Republican-led Senate instead of a vote on this Republican, partisan, 2-month, crappy CR bill that we know will not become law.

Now is the time to stand up against far-right extremism and take the deal. Let's have a vote on the Senate bill.

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to insert the text of my amendment into the Record along with any extraneous material immediately prior to the vote on the previous question.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro), ranking member of the Appropriations Committee, to discuss our proposal.

Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Connecticut.

Mr. Speaker, I would just say to the gentleman from North Carolina, his two Republican Senators, Messrs. Tillis and Budd, didn't seem to have a problem. Maybe he should call them.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Stanton).

Mr. Speaker, I want everybody to know the gentleman from West Virginia was saying ``hell no'' to paying TSA workers, FEMA workers, Coast Guard workers, and CISA workers. Shame on you.

By the way, if you have some complaints about this bill, the gentleman from West Virginia should write his two Senators, Justice and Capito, because they voted for this.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. Torres).

Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the gentlewoman from California.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.

Mr. Speaker, I know the gentleman has a tough primary, but let me say, for the record, that none of us are hiding behind the big, ugly bill. We would not vote for a bill that cut Medicaid by a trillion dollars or cut SNAP by $200 billion. We certainly wouldn't vote for a bill that would provide multiyear funding for ICE.

That is just the reality. You did that, and so there is funding for ICE. I will just say to the gentleman that if he has a problem with this bill, he should check with Senator Cornyn, who is in the Republican leadership, and Senator Cruz who, by the way, I think you worked for.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Green).

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, this debate has not changed the basic facts one bit. There is a bill that can pass the House. There is a bill that can become law. There is a bill that can end this shutdown. Speaker Johnson is refusing to bring it to the floor. That is the whole story.

Republicans can dress this up however they want. They can hold all the conference calls they want. They can play all the procedural games that they want. None of it changes the truth. This shutdown is continuing because the Republican Speaker of the House is too weak to stand up to the extremists running his conference.

While Republicans can't seem to face reality in Washington, people all over the country are living with the consequences: The TSA agent worried about rent; the Coast Guard spouse trying to stretch a paycheck that is not coming; the FEMA worker left hanging; the family stuck in chaos at the airport because this Republican Congress cannot do its job.

Now, let me be clear that those people are not pawns in some power struggle. They are not leverage. They are the people that we are supposed to serve, and, still, Republicans are failing them.

This CR isn't some serious answer. It is not. It is a joke. It is a joke. It is a plan to provide cover for a Speaker who knows exactly what needs to be done but does not have the guts to do it.

We all know the Senate bill is the exit ramp. So take it. Take it. Bring it up, pass it, and end this mess. That is what responsible people would do. That is what a real Speaker would do. That is what leadership is all about.

Tonight, if this shutdown continues, the American people should remember this moment. They should remember that the solution was sitting right here, ready to go, ready for a vote, and ready to pass. One man, Speaker Mike Johnson, said no.

Republicans, you own this. You own every delayed flight, every missed paycheck, every family under stress, and every hour of avoidable pain. This is a Republican shutdown. How dare you do this to the American people. People are tired of being jerked around. People are tired of being screwed over by your policies that favor the Epstein class at the expense of working people. Here we have a chance to help pay Federal workers, to keep our government running and Homeland Security, and you say no. You say no.

In the Senate it was a unanimous vote. Every Republican Senator went along with it. Not a single one of them objected. Even the most conservative right wing Senator did not object to it. Yet, that is not enough for you. That is not enough for you. Shame on you. Shame on this institution for not rising to the moment.

Mr. Speaker, I urge defeat of the previous question, and I urge a defeat of this rule. This is a lousy process. Shame on Republicans.

Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.

Mr. Speaker, I thank my distinguished colleague, the top Democrat on the Rules Committee, Jim McGovern, for yielding and for his leadership.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong opposition to this partisan political stunt that Republicans have brought to the floor masquerading as legitimate legislation.

There is a bipartisan bill that, if brought to the floor today, can end the 42-day Trump-Republican shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security,

but Republicans have concluded that they would rather continue to force TSA agents to work without pay, inconvenience millions of Americans all across the country, and create chaos at airports.

Why is this happening? It is because Republicans have chosen to continue to authorize spending billions of taxpayer dollars to brutalize or kill American citizens, like Renee Nicole Good or Alex Pretti, or to violently target law-abiding immigrant families.

Mr. Speaker, we believe that immigration enforcement in this country should be fair, just, and humane. That is not what is happening right now. ICE is out of control. The American people know it, which is why changes need to be made that are bold, meaningful, dramatic, transformational, and common sense at the same period of time.

Instead, Republicans have chosen to double and triple down on their extremism, on their brutality, and on their violence that has been unleashed on everyday Americans all across the country.

There is a bipartisan bill sent over from the Senate. Every single Senate Democrat and every single Senate Republican supported that legislation. It would reopen the TSA, reopen FEMA, reopen the Coast Guard, and reopen the ability for our cybersecurity professionals to do their job while at the same time allowing for discussions, tough negotiations, to continue.

On one side of those negotiations are my Republican colleagues who want to continue to spend taxpayer dollars to brutalize and kill American citizens; unleashing masked, untrained ICE agents, in some cases storming homes of everyday Americans, ripping them out of their beds in the middle of the night, ripping children away from their families, detaining people in inhumane conditions, and refusing to allow State and local authorities to investigate ICE's violence and brutality in ways that will be designed to bring about accountability.

This debate, at the end of the day, is really all about: Do you want to compel ICE to conduct themselves like every other cop, police officer, or law enforcement agency in the country, or do you want to continue to spend billions of taxpayer dollars to violently target American citizens and law-abiding immigrant families?

We choose the American way: fair, just, and humane.

Mr. Speaker, many of my Republican colleagues have come to the floor to suggest that this legislation is about defunding ICE. That is a stone-cold lie because we know that the Republican one big, ugly bill ripped away Medicaid from 14 million Americans, the largest cut--almost $1 trillion--to Medicaid in American history. At the same period of time, extremist Republicans in their one big, ugly bill enacted a $186 billion cut to nutritional assistance, literally ripped food from the mouths of hungry children, seniors, and veterans.

Why did Republicans do that in their one big, ugly bill? In part, it was to provide their billionaire donors with massive tax breaks that they did not need and did not deserve and, at the same period of time, gave the Department of Homeland Security $191 billion--watch this--$75 billion in a slush fund to ICE.

Is that defunding? No. The one big, ugly bill defunded Medicaid. It defunded nutritional assistance for everyday Americans. It defunded some affordable housing programs. It defunded the ability for everyday Americans who are struggling under Republican policies to actually afford their utility bills. That was the defunding that has taken place in this Chamber during this Congress.

Defunding ICE--how do you stand up here as Republicans and say that to the American people with a straight face when you gave ICE a $75 billion slush fund and then turned around and gave CBP a $65 billion slush fund in the same one big, ugly bill?

The reality is that we can end this shutdown--this 42-day, extreme Trump-Republican shutdown--today. If Republicans had the courage and the patriotism to actually bring a bipartisan Senate-passed bill to the floor, it would pass this Chamber with Democratic and Republican votes. Maybe not the extremists, but it would pass with Democratic and Republican votes.

Mike Johnson has chosen to say ``no'' to a bipartisan bill so that he can say ``yes'' to continuing to force TSA agents to work without pay.

Mike Johnson has said ``no'' to a bipartisan bill so that he could say ``yes'' to continuing to inconvenience millions of the American people across the country.

Mike Johnson has said ``no'' to a bipartisan bill so that House Republicans could say ``yes'' to chaos at airports all across the country.

Mike Johnson has said ``no'' to a bipartisan bill so that House Republicans could continue to say ``yes'' to ICE brutality.

Mike Johnson has said no to a bipartisan Senate-passed bill so House Republicans could continue to say yes to ICE violence.

Mike Johnson has said no to a bipartisan Senate-passed bill so House Republicans could continue to say yes to the corruption that we have seen at the Department of Homeland Security.

Mike Johnson has said no to a bipartisan Senate-passed bill that would reopen the Department of Homeland Security so House Republicans could say yes to the Freedom Caucus, which is clearly driving the train here.

It was amazing to me that at the Rules Committee, you had some Republican Members trying to lecture America about Article I and separate and coequal branches of government. Really, you want to talk about the House and the Senate? I am not interested in that debate.

Let's talk about the difference between Article I and Article II, because the Framers of this Constitution designed the Article I branch, the Congress, to be the first amongst equals.

That is not how House Republicans have been acting from the very beginning of this Congress. Instead, House Republicans are running around this town acting like nothing more than a reckless rubberstamp to Donald Trump's extreme agenda. That is what is happening right now. What House Republicans want to do is to continue to fund Donald Trump's violent, extreme, mass deportation machine that has resulted in the death of at least three American citizens.

Lecture us about Article I and Article II, you have got to be kidding.

Mr. Speaker, I am going to continue to speak truth to power on this floor as a duly-elected Member, and the more you stand, the longer I will speak.

So our view is very clear. We can reopen this government today if you bring to the House floor a bipartisan, Senate-passed bill. As Democrats, we believe that immigration enforcement in this country should be fair, it should be just, and it should be humane.

Donald Trump promised to target violent felons who are here illegally. That is what Republicans promised.

You have broken your word. It is American citizens and law-abiding immigrant families who are being targeted violently by untrained and masked ICE agents.

Our position is pretty clear: Let's pay TSA. Let's fund FEMA. Let's fund the Coast Guard. Let's fund our cybersecurity professionals. Stop holding the American people hostage to an extreme rightwing agenda.

Taxpayer dollars should be spent to make life more affordable for the American people. That is what Democrats will continue to focus on, in an environment where life has become more expensive under the extreme policies that President Trump and House Republicans continue to jam down the throats of the American people: the Trump tariffs, increasing costs on everyday Americans by millions of dollars in totality, thousands of dollars per year for everyday Americans as a family.

House Republicans have refused, Senate Republicans have refused, and Donald Trump has refused to do anything to make life more affordable. Housing costs are out of control. Healthcare costs are out of control. Grocery bills are out of control. Gas prices are out of control because Republicans have decided to get us into a reckless war of choice in the Middle East, spending billions of dollars to drop bombs in Iran.

Mr. Speaker, we are here dealing with a partisan spending bill that the Senate has already indicated is dead on arrival. Republicans have taken the decision to own this shutdown decisively. There is no doubt. As Ranking Member Jim McGovern stated earlier, there is no doubt as to why we are still facing

a shutdown that is inflicting pain, chaos, and uncertainty on the American people.

I rise in strong opposition to this so-called spending bill that is dead on arrival, that will do nothing, accomplish nothing, other than continuing the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security and the chaos that Republicans have unleashed in airports all across America.

House Democrats are going to continue to fight for what is right. We are going to continue to fight to lower the high cost of living, fix our broken healthcare system, clean up corruption, stop this reckless war of choice in the Middle East, get ICE under control, pay TSA, end the chaos at these airports, and end this national nightmare that Donald Trump and Republicans are inflicting upon the American people.

Vote ``no'' against this partisan political stunt.

Let's say ``yes'' instead to a bipartisan bill that would reopen the Department of Homeland Security, end the chaos at airports, and stop the inconvenience of the American people.

Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I call up House Resolution 1142 and ask for its immediate consideration.

Mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. McGovern), pending which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the purpose of debate only.

General Leave

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members may have 5 legislative days to revise and extend their remarks.

Mr. Speaker, we are here tonight to debate the rule providing for consideration of the Senate amendment for H.R. 7147, the Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act of 2026.

The rule provides that the House shall be considered to have taken from the Speaker's table H.R. 7147, with the Senate amendment thereto, and to

have concurred in the Senate amendment with an amendment consisting of the text of Rules Committee Print 119-21.

Simply put, a vote for this rule is a vote to fund the entire Department of Homeland Security through May 22, 2026.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today because the American people are tired of half measures when it comes to their safety.

Last night, the Senate passed a funding deal that can only be described as an attempt to put a dead bolt on the front door while leaving the backdoor wide-open.

They want us to believe they are securing our homeland, yet their proposal dedicates exactly zero dollars toward our Border Patrol operations. In a world of evolving threats, my colleagues across the aisle believe that we can protect this Nation by halves, but the message from House Republicans is clear: We will not and cannot fund only half of our Homeland Security.

Security is not a buffet where you get to pick and choose which threats you acknowledge. House Republicans are aligned with the President on this. We will not accept a funding bill that does not support our homeland defenders, our ICE agents, and our Border Patrol.

If it is important to stop tragedies from happening at our airports and everyone can agree on that, then it is equally important to stop these events from happening at our borders and in our communities.

This week, the country felt the weight of Sheridan Gorman's death, a tragedy that is compounded by the bitter reality that it was entirely preventable and the result of Democrat policies that allow violent criminals to walk our streets.

This loss is a grim reminder that when policies prioritize a radical agenda and the protection of violent illegal aliens over the protection of American citizens, it is innocent families that pay the ultimate price.

We need to protect our citizens, and House Republicans will not vote for an even slightly open border. We will not leave portions of our homeland vulnerable while pretending the job is done. We know what happens when the border is treated as an afterthought.

Under the Biden administration, America faced a national security risk. More than 20 million illegal immigrants entered the United States, straining our communities to the breaking point. Customs and Border Patrol recorded more than 2 million illegal immigrants were able to cross into the Nation without any record of who they were. That is nearly double what they tracked during the prior decade.

Between fiscal year 2021 and fiscal year 2024, more than 388 illegal aliens on the terrorist watch list attempted to cross the border and, most alarming, at least 99 illegal aliens on that same watch list were allowed into our country. We saw members from one of the most notorious gangs in the world, MS-13, infiltrate our cities, leading to takeovers like we saw in Aurora, Colorado.

That is the result of Democrat hope-based border vulnerability strategies, but we do not operate on hope or whims. We operate on facts and action.

Under the Trump administration, we have seen what happens when we prioritize enforcement. In the last 10 months, zero illegal aliens have been released into the United States. We have proven that when the law is followed and the border is secured, our communities are safer and Americans are protected.

The transformation of Homeland Security is further proof that the U.S. Coast Guard seized nearly 510,000 pounds of cocaine in fiscal year 2025, a 200 percent increase compared to the annual average in previous years, and yet, despite this clear progress, Democrats are choosing to block DHS funding leading to this shutdown.

They would rather see the entire Department shuttered than to see our borders secure. This is a simple, commonsense, 60-day, 8-week clean CR so we can properly pay our homeland defenders and continue the discussions.

It secures the border by fully funding the paychecks and resources that we need. It protects our airports. It supports the President's decisive leadership in allocating TSA funds. It keeps FEMA ready to ensure our disaster response is not a casualty of the Democrat shutdown, and it guarantees the men and women on the front lines are paid for the critical work they do.

Mr. Speaker, the Senate bill is a nonstarter because it treats national security as an optional expense. House Republicans will not fund a half-baked idea that leaves our borders open and our communities at risk.

Mr. Speaker, I encourage my colleagues on the other side of the aisle and the other side of the rotunda to stop holding our security hostage. Join me in supporting this commonsense, 8-week CR and funding critical needs.

Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.

Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from the other side of the aisle can yell and swear all he wants. The reality is this CR is a commonsense solution to fund critical needs and to continue the discussion.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Austin Scott), my Rules Committee colleague.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Clyde).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from North Carolina (Ms. Foxx), the chair of the Rules Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Scalise), the true leader, the majority leader from Louisiana.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Jordan), the chair of the Judiciary Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Meuser).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. McDowell).

Mr. Speaker, I yield an additional 30 seconds to the gentleman from North Carolina.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Moore).

Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Roy), my colleague on the Rules Committee.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time to close.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to close this debate with a clear and unwavering message to my colleagues across the aisle and across the rotunda: you cannot fund only half of our Homeland Security.

There has been a lot of loud voices from the other side of the aisle. I think they believe the louder they speak the more the American people will believe them. The American people do understand that this CR makes sense. It funds everything, people get paid, and it allows more time to continue the discussion. This is the commonsense thing to do.

The proposal sent to us by the Senate in the dead of the night is not a solution. It is a Swiss cheese funding bill defined by its holes and deficiencies. While we all agree on the importance of protecting our airports, the Senate plan operates on the hope that we can secure our borders by using supplemental funds meant for construction and technology to cover basic operational needs.

The current bill does not just ignore the border. It actively harms our border security infrastructure. It keeps our cybersecurity experts at CISA furloughed while adversaries target our networks. It leaves FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund depleted and keeps our Coast Guard crews from the training they need to operate in hazardous conditions.

Our 60-day CR ensures that over 100,000 DHS employees receive paychecks. It ensures that investigations into drug trafficking, human smuggling, and child exploitation can commence.

It ensures that our BioWatch systems remain active in over 30 major cities to warn us of bioterrorism attacks.

The American people are tired of games. They do not want half- security or partial funding. They want a government that protects them at the airport, at the hospital, and at the border.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to stop holding our homeland defenders hostage to push a radical open-border agenda. Support this rule, support this CR, and let's get back to the business of securing the entire United States.

Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I move the previous question on the resolution.

Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from Minnesota for yielding and all the applause coming from the other side.

Look, Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this important bill to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security. You know, we have done this time and time again at least in the House. This will mark tonight the fourth time that the House has voted to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security.

I know there has been a lot of back and forth in the Senate, and then at 3 in the morning Senators just decided, well, throw in the towel and maybe see what they can cobble together to get out of town.

But, Mr. Speaker, we have got a job to do. Our job is to protect the American people to do our job to keep them safe, and that is why we created this Department, not some of the Department, not just pieces of the Department, but the entire Department of Homeland Security.

I know the other side over and over again has wanted to go back to open borders. We are not going to go back to open borders. The American people don't want us to go back to open borders. They have seen the peril of that.

We also, Mr. Speaker, cannot go back to a September 10 mentality, a pre-September 11 mentality where you just ignore the signs of the bad things that are happening in this country. We changed that after September 11, and we vowed: ``Never forget,'' never let it happen again, yet here we are.

Some Members want to get in the time machine, and they want to go back to another day where maybe America didn't have any attacks. Well, how about we go back in a time machine and listen to the Democrat leader Hakeem Jeffries. I will read a quote from Hakeem Jeffries. ``We are here today to do a single job, and that should be to fund fully the Department of Homeland Security. Anything else is an abdication of our responsibility. Anything else is an act of legislative malpractice. We are playing political games at a time when the safety and the security of the American people is being threatened.'' That was said in 2015 by Hakeem Jeffries.

Now, what has happened between now and then? Well, let me tell you, Mr. Speaker, this is not your father's Democratic Party anymore. You have seen how far the radical crazy elements of the party have taken over and tried to bring it to this socialist mentality, this open borders mentality, this defund the police mentality. And, yes, this bill absolutely defunds the police.

You have got under this bill that came over from the Senate, even when

you count in the working families tax cut that every Democrat voted against, even when you count that in, 6,700 people at the Department of Homeland Security will be defunded. That is right. They will be defunded.

The American people rejected the defund the police movement. Just because it happened in the Senate at 3 in the morning doesn't mean nobody heard it. We did. We didn't just hear it, we read the bill, and we said, no, Mr. Speaker, that is not the responsible thing to do for this country.

This country is counting on us. And by the way, it is at a time when we are at a heightened level of threats. If you are wondering what that heightened level is--I know there are some people that just want to go after police all the time. Why don't we just read a couple of the names that the other side doesn't want to read.

Richard Williams, Mr. Speaker, was an 83-year-old U.S. Air Force veteran who was randomly shoved into the subway tracks by an illegal alien from Honduras. He just died this week.

We have all heard of Sheridan Gorman. Maybe not enough people, Mr. Speaker, have heard of Sheridan Gorman, but we are going to say her name again. She was a beautiful 18-year-old young girl from Loyola University in Chicago, a student who had the world before her. She was shot to death by, yes, an illegal alien from Venezuela who came over here under President Biden's open borders that the other side wants to take us back to. We are not going to do that. That surely is not the responsible thing to do.

Stephanie Minter, a 41-year-old mother from Virginia, was randomly stabbed to death by an illegal, yes, with a lengthy rap sheet with more than 30 prior charges.

How many more of these do we have to have before some people will say, okay, maybe we need to fund this Department? I don't think there is an endless list before--they just don't want to offend their radical base, Mr. Speaker. That is really who they are afraid of.

Obviously, if they were concerned about all these Americans--over and over and over again. This is just in the last month who has been killed by people here illegally, and they are going to go and defund almost 7,000 people at the Department? That is insane.

And, oh, by the way, have we talked about the multiple terrorist attacks that have happened, yes, here on our homeland, not on foreign soil, here on our homeland just in the last month, and they want to partially defund this agency with this bill and the working families tax cut. Still over 10 percent of the whole agency will be defunded at a time when we are at a heightened terrorist threat.

Could you imagine if you had a terrorist outside of your house, and somebody said, well, we will let you lock the front door, but we don't have time to lock the back door? You would think that was crazy. You would lock the front door, the back door, the windows, and everything else, and you would go get your shotgun.

But yet, they want to defund this agency and make our country vulnerable, make Americans less safe? I am not going to have anything to do with that, Mr. Speaker. I want to fund the whole Department. That is what this bill does. It pays everybody. It pays the TSA agents as they should be, as Democrats have voted time and time again to not pay. We pay them. And it is not long-term. I wish it was. We have sent them a long-term bill. This is for a few months. We at least have time to keep negotiating our differences.

These are big differences, but these are dangerous times in America. This is not the time to defund the police, to defund the Department of Homeland Security at any level. Mr. Speaker, I would urge everybody to vote for this bill. Let's do our job. We are here doing the right thing to keep America safe. I urge adoption.

Mr. Speaker, the bill we are debating tonight will never become law. It is dead on arrival, doomed. The Senate has gone home. They did their job. They worked together in a bipartisan way to negotiate, deliberate, and strike an agreement that passed unanimously out of the Senate Chamber.

Imagine, Democrats and Republicans said ``yes.'' How often does this happen?

House Republican leadership refuses to bring it up for a vote because they know if they did, it would pass overwhelmingly. By blocking the Senate's agreement from receiving a vote, Republican leadership extends the shutdown, and that means another missed paycheck for Federal workers.

What is the Republican leadership position? Let us continue to withhold paychecks from TSA agents. Let us continue to force them to sleep in their cars, to continue to have to sell their plasma, to stay frightened to death of evictions.

Republican leadership is doing this because they do not want to enact even the most fundamental constraints on ICE, a rogue, lawless, and reckless agency. They want to allow them to continue harassing, beating up, and, yes, even killing American citizens.

They would rather prolong this shutdown, continue withholding paychecks from TSA workers, and keep extending the lines at airport security than enact a requirement that Federal officers obtain a warrant from a judge before they kick in your front door or they pick you up on the street.

They do not want to require independent investigations into egregious misconduct by ICE officers. They want

to allow them to continue to detain and deport American citizens, allow them to go to sensitive locations, like churches and hospitals and schools.

They side with out-of-control Federal agencies over the responsible, dedicated workers who keep air travel safe.

Only yesterday, President Trump decided that he has the ability to pay these workers. If the White House believes they have the authority and the funds to pay these workers, then they have had this authority all along for the past 42 days. However, what they chose to do was withhold the paychecks from TSA workers for political gain. It is shameful.

ICE is funded. Don't listen to them. They have $75 billion plus another $10 billion in a slush fund, and they can do whatever they want with it. Customs and Border Protection have $65 billion and another $11 billion in the Senate bill. Spare us the lies.

The American people know exactly who is responsible for prolonging this shutdown. The TSA workers, putting in yet another shift with no pay, will know when they see Republican Members hightailing it home to enjoy their spring break.

Mr. Speaker, we have an opportunity to end this shutdown. If we defeat the previous question, I will offer an amendment to the rule to bring up the bipartisan bill passed unanimously by the United States Senate.

If the House passed the bipartisan Senate agreement, I sincerely doubt, my friends, that the President of the United States would veto it. We can stop the madness tonight. Instead, Republican leadership is choosing to continue it for politics and political gain. It is shameful.