DHS funding stalemate drags on as paychecks loom
Washington remains in a protracted standoff over Department of Homeland Security funding, risking tens of thousands of federal workers going unpaid for weeks or months while negotiations falter amid GOP divisions and Democratic resistance to immigration-enforcement changes; despite Trump paying TSA payroll and a Senate plan to fund most of DHS, House Republicans rejected it, leaving no clear bipartisan path before a potential summer deadlock as airport lines have temporarily eased.