Senate and House Republicans announced an agreement on Wednesday to move ahead as early as Thursday morning with legislation to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, resurrecting a bipartisan deal that President Trump and the House G.O.P. angrily rejected last week.
The plan would fund the department through Sept. 30 but omit money for the agencies carrying out Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown. Republicans said Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol would continue to be paid for out of funds they pushed through Congress last year over Democratic objections. This year, Democrats have refused to approve spending for those agencies without new restrictions on federal immigration agents’ conduct.
The spending bill does not include any such restrictions, which Democrats had demanded after immigration officers killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis.
Senator John Thune of South Dakota, the majority leader, and Speaker Mike Johnson announced their agreement to end the partial shutdown in a statement on Wednesday afternoon.
“In the coming days, Republicans in the Senate and House will be following through on the president’s directive by fully funding the entire Department of Homeland Security on two parallel tracks: through the appropriations process and through the reconciliation process,” the statement said.
A senior White House official said Mr. Trump, who blasted the funding deal as “inappropriate” last week, would sign it should it reach his desk.
The agreement represents a sharp turnaround by him and House Republicans, who condemned the funding compromise forged in the Senate last week, which senators approved early Friday morning by unanimous agreement with no recorded vote. They had portrayed it as a surrender to Democratic obstruction.
But on Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Trump signaled an agreement was coming when he posted a demand on social media that Republicans deliver to his desk by June 1 a proposal to fund his immigration crackdown through a special budget process that could skirt a Democratic filibuster.
Both the House and Senate have special pro forma sessions scheduled for early Thursday morning, when the stalled legislation could be taken up, approved and sent to the president as long as no lawmaker objects.
Luke Broadwater contributed reporting.
Carl Hulse is the chief Washington correspondent for The Times, primarily writing about Congress and national political races and issues. He has nearly four decades of experience reporting in the nation’s capital.
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