What's next after House Republicans reject Senate deal to end DHS shutdown
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🗓️ 27 March 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the News Hour. It has been a dizzying and dramatic 24 hours in the halls of Congress. |
| 0:07.2 | Early this morning, the Senate unanimously passed a plan to immediately end the shutdown for most of the Department of Homeland Security. |
| 0:14.6 | But within hours, House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected it because it didn't include money for ICE and Border Patrol. |
| 0:22.5 | Now House Republicans are pursuing a different approach and risking a longer shutdown. Meanwhile, President Trump took |
| 0:28.3 | executive action to pay one group, TSA workers at airports. Congressional correspondent Lisa |
| 0:34.0 | Lisa Desjardin is here to help us understand all this if we can't understand it. |
| 0:39.0 | TSA workers really want to this has been focused on a lot. So what happens to them in this? |
| 0:43.3 | Let's start with them. They haven't been paid yet, but as you said, President Trump signed that executive order today. |
| 0:48.3 | He would use money that was passed last year for borrow it from the one big beautiful bill act. |
| 0:54.2 | The TSA tells us that they expect those workers to be paid by Monday. |
| 0:58.9 | Now, of course, all this speaks to those long lines that Americans have been seen at some airports. |
| 1:03.6 | We do know there's a permanent effect. |
| 1:05.1 | Some 500 TSA workers have quit the job altogether so far. |
| 1:09.6 | One of our senior producers spoke to TSA Union operative, |
| 1:13.6 | an officer named Johnny Jones. |
| 1:15.6 | He said that they are appreciative, |
| 1:17.6 | but no one's counting on this money until it actually appears |
| 1:20.6 | in their bank accounts. |
| 1:22.6 | In addition, Jones told our producer, Murray Jacobson, |
| 1:25.6 | that they were stunned to realize that President Trump could have done this. |
| 1:29.3 | This is the same kind of money he's used to already pay military members of the Coast Guard. |
| 1:33.7 | And one more thing, Jones said, they are all tired of being used as what they feel as pawns. |
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