U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington

Trump signs Homeland Security funding bill, ending record shutdown

By Lisa Mascaro, Associated Press

Senators hold press conferences following weekly luncheons

WATCH: Senate meets as Republicans try to secure DHS funding through budget reconciliation

The Senate voted on Tuesday to launch a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security and end the longest partial government shutdown in history. The 52-46 vote was the first step in a budget process that Republicans hope…

By Mary Clare Jalonick, Associated Press

House Budget Committee hearing on the Trump administration's 2027 budget request, on Capitol Hill in Washington

WATCH: OMB chief Vought says Homeland Security is 'disintegrating' during shutdown

Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget, told lawmakers in a hearing Thursday that the Department of Homeland Security is “disintegrating” as it remains unfunded by Congress.

By Hannah Grabenstein

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Trump signs an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House

Bypassing Congress, Trump says he'll sign order to resume pay for Homeland Security

The DHS funding lapse had seemed likely to stretch into next week as the House is contemplating passing a Senate plan it had previously rejected to fund the bulk of the agency, but not its immigration enforcement operations.

By Kevin Freking, Joey Cappelletti, Associated Press

FILE PHOTO: Kristi Noem is seen at Shield of the Americas Summit in Doral, Florida

DHS pauses new immigrant warehouse purchases as all Noem-era contracts are reviewed

The new Homeland Security Secretary, Markwayne Mullin, was sworn in last week to lead a department that was steeped in controversy during Kristi Noem's tenure but also central to President Trump's mass deportation agenda.

By Rebecca Santana, Heather Hollingsworth, Associated Press

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: TSA, Coast Guard, FEMA leaders testify on effects of partial government shutdown

By Associated Press

During a House Committee on Homeland Security hearing Wednesday, acting TSA leader Nguyen McNeill said that more than 480 transportation security officers have now quit amid the ongoing shutdown.