The Senate moved early Thursday to try again to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, but House Republicans declined to clear the Senate plan for President Trump, prolonging the record agency shutdown even after G.O.P. leaders had agreed on a way to end it swiftly.
Meeting in a brief ceremonial session, the House opted not to take up spending legislation that the Senate had sent over about 90 minutes earlier, leaving a quick resolution to the stalemate out of reach for now. It was unclear when the House, which is in a two-week recess, might consider the bill or if it would have to wait until lawmakers are scheduled to return in mid-April.
Hard-right House Republicans are infuriated about the deal, which omits money for immigration enforcement, and which Speaker Mike Johnson called “a joke” last week before abruptly caving on Wednesday and endorsing it after Mr. Trump appeared to warm to the idea.
“I don’t know the particulars around what the House will do with it, but my assumption is at some point hopefully they will move it,” Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and the majority leader, told reporters, referring to the legislation.
House Democrats had already said they would back the measure, allowing it to pass the chamber easily if Mr. Johnson were to put it to a vote and persuade enough Republicans to follow his lead in supporting it.
But ultraconservative Republicans have slammed the plan because it lacks money for immigration enforcement. They argue it guts the agencies that police the nation’s borders, though ICE and border patrol operations have been funded throughout the partial shutdown through a separate slush fund from the tax cut bill Republicans pushed through the House last year.
The rare early-morning maneuvering was aimed at bringing to an immediate end to the longest partial government shutdown on record, which has snarled airport security lines and left thousands of agency workers going without pay or furloughed in a bitter dispute over the conduct and tactics of federal immigration officers.
After days of angry exchanges, House and Senate Republican leaders on Wednesday announced they had come to an agreement resolving their dispute. Under their compromise, Congress would fund the agency on a two-track approach by passing the Senate plan the House had first repudiated and then using a special budget process to skirt the filibuster and push through legislation providing money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol over Democratic opposition.
A senior White House official said on Wednesday that Mr. Trump, who had blasted the plan just last week, would sign the homeland security spending bill.
But rather than taking it up on Thursday morning and clearing it for his signature, Mr. Johnson left the agreement he had blessed in limbo in the House. The next opportunity to act on the measure would be Monday, when the chamber is scheduled to hold another ceremonial session.
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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