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House Rules Committee advances GOP continuing resolution after heated dispute over DHS funding
Summary
The House Rules Committee voted to report a rule that would send the House GOP continuing resolution for H.R. 7147 to the floor after hours of partisan exchanges about whether a bipartisan Senate amendment would immediately restore pay to TSA, Coast Guard and FEMA employees; a Democratic motion to send the Senate'9s unanimous package to the president failed on a 4'9to'98 recorded vote.
The House Rules Committee on Friday voted to report a rule that would allow the House to take up the Senate amendment to H.R. 7147, the Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act of 2026, after lawmakers spent much of the hearing arguing about whether the Senate'9s late-night, unanimous action would immediately restore pay and operations for parts of the Department of Homeland Security.
The committee'9s chair opened by condemning the Senate amendment as a "Swiss-cheese" approach to funding and urged members to support an eight-week continuing resolution that Republican leaders drafted to buy time for negotiations. "We don'9t operate on hope. We operate on process, deliberation, and action," the chair said in opening remarks.
Rep. James McGovern, the Rules Committee ranking member, responded that House Republicans had the ability to put the bipartisan Senate bill on the floor for an up-or-down vote and accused House leadership of prolonging a partial shutdown that has left TSA and some other DHS personnel working without pay. "If the Senate bill were brought to the floor…
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