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WATCH: Johnson rejects Homeland Security funding bill passed by the Senate as a 'joke'

By Associated Press

“We’re going to do something different,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said, challenging the Senate to take up the House’s continuing resolution on Monday — assuming it does pass the House, which is uncertain.

WATCH: House Republicans reject Senate bill to reopen Department of Homeland Security

By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick, Kevin Freking, Associated Press

President Donald Trump on Friday signed a promised executive action that will pay Transportation Security Administration employees after a bid to end the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security abruptly fell apart in Congress.

WATCH: Senate passes deal to fund TSA, DHS

By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press

President Donald Trump said Thursday he would sign an order instructing the Homeland Security secretary to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration agents as Congress struggled to reach a deal to end a budget impasse that has jammed airports and left…

Casey Means' surgeon general nomination is stalled

By Ali Swenson, Associated Press

The nomination has languished despite ongoing efforts from the White House and Make America Healthy Again activists, revealing how intractable rifts over health policy can be even when Congress has shown deference to President Donald Trump.

WATCH: Senate meets as lawmakers consider deal to fund Homeland Security

By Lisa Mascaro, Joey Cappelletti, Associated Press

The potential breakthrough came after a group of Republican senators headed to the White House late Monday to meet with President Donald Trump.

Energy executive Alan Armstrong picked to fill Mullin's Senate seat through end of year

By Sean Murphy, Associated Press

The choice by Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, who had pledged to pick a “conservative voice” to fill Markwayne Mullin's seat, elevates to the Senate the chairman and former CEO of Williams Companies, a major pipeline operator based in Tulsa.

Trump rejects Senate proposal to reopen DHS without ICE funding

By Lisa Desjardins, Kyle Midura

The deployment of ICE agents to airports comes as the partial Department of Homeland Security shutdown nears the 40-day mark. The president nixed one potential solution over the weekend that would have funded some agencies, including TSA. Congressional correspondent Lisa…

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WATCH: Senate fails to advance measure for DHS funding to end shutdown

By Kevin Freking, Associated Press

A bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security failed to advance Friday in the Senate amid growing concerns about long lines to get through screening at some of the country's biggest airports.

WATCH: Senate Homeland Security panel advances Markwayne Mullin's nomination for DHS

By Meg Kinnard, Associated Press

Sen. Markwayne Mullin moved a step closer to becoming President Donald Trump's next homeland security secretary after a Senate committee Thursday narrowly advanced his nomination.

WATCH: Sen. Paul asks DHS nominee Mullin if he believes violence can resolve political differences

By Joshua Barajas

“I don't always agree with that. I don't believe in political violence. I've made that very clear,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., said in his confirmation hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.