2026-04-27T17:13:26.287Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
作者：莎拉·费里斯、劳伦·福克斯
发布时间：2026年4月27日，美国东部时间下午1:13
国会山顶尖共和党人已耗时10周，试图结束围绕国土安全部资金的激烈僵局。
如今，包括在本周末华盛顿枪击事件中保护总统的美国特勤局特工在内的联邦工作人员即将面临停发工资，共和党领导层正面临前所未有的压力，要求他们解决这场僵局。
据共和党领导层助手透露，国会共和党人将于周一晚间返回华盛顿，接下来将进行一系列引发激烈党内分歧的争议性投票，其中包括关键的国土安全部资金法案。此外，还有其他几项必须通过的法案在席位微弱分化的众议院中仍缺乏足够票数，其中包括一项监督政府间谍权力的法案——保守派隐私鹰派对此深恶痛绝，以及一项庞大的农业法案——该法案激怒了共和党中的MAHA阵营。
“我们将迎来噩梦一周，”一名共和党领导层助手告诉CNN。
对议长迈克·约翰逊和参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩而言，最棘手的或许是结束国土安全部72天的停摆。停摆已导致数千名联邦工作人员的薪资发放陷入疑问，其中包括在本周白宫记者协会晚宴上被子弹击中防弹衣的特工。到目前为止，国土安全部一直动用此前获批的100亿美元应急基金支付工作人员工资，但助手们警告称，这笔资金很快就会耗尽。预计工作人员将只能再领取该基金发放的一次工资，之后便会用尽。
“我们必须推进国土安全部的资金法案，因为这很紧急。正如国土安全部部长所言，我们的资金已经耗尽。本周末就将见底。民主党人一直在拿这件事做文章。周六晚上的事件已经证明了这有多危险。我们必须完成这项工作，”约翰逊周一在被问及是否会在本周推进该资金法案时表示。
解决国土安全部的资金危机对约翰逊和四分五裂的众议院共和党人来说原本就几乎是不可能的任务。党内围绕如何重启国土安全部陷入激烈争执，保守派对图恩决定屈服于民主党要求、仅为该部门提供部分资金——不包含移民执法资金——感到愤怒。这引发了一场 frantic 争夺，试图通过一项单独的、立法复杂的一揽子法案，仅为联邦移民执法和边境巡逻提供资金，但这一进程又因其他强硬派的要求而陷入停滞。
周六在华盛顿最引人注目的年度活动之一上发生的枪击事件，进一步让谈判复杂化。包括得克萨斯州众议员奇普·罗伊在内的一些强硬派共和党人要求该党派为白宫场地内的“安全宴会厅”拨款，以便总统能够安全举办活动。（他们中的许多人原本就对国土安全部投票提出了重大要求，包括将该法案与特朗普的联邦选举改革法案挂钩，以及承诺在中期选举前推进一项雄心勃勃的国内政策议程。）
已经是史上最长的国土安全部停摆，如今正威胁着负责保护美国边境的官员面临严重后果。
一名匿名共和党议员（因与国土安全部部长马克韦恩·马伦的 ongoing 对话而要求匿名）告诉CNN，该机构内部存在担忧，如果众议院不尽快推进国土安全部的资金法案，可能会出现“严重后果”。
马伦本人在最近几周的众多电视露面中都警告称，资金即将耗尽。
尽管在特朗普单方面决定为运输安全管理局工作人员支付工资后，引发头条新闻的机场长队已经缓解，但国土安全部监管的其他领域，如海岸警卫队，正面临现有资金流的限制。
“除了运输安全管理局之外，还有一些机构无法像（网络安全和基础设施安全局）那样获得薪酬。海岸警卫队已经别无选择，”这名议员说。“网络安全是一件大事。你无法雇佣任何员工，也无法给他们任何保障。他们将开始离开该机构。”
其他酝酿中的斗争
共和党领导人还必须弄清楚如何化解一场已经导致众议院两次投票失败的立法地雷：更新一项对美国海外监视至关重要的政府间谍权力。
这项被称为《外国情报监控法》第702条的工具，在许多不信任政府在无搜查令情况下监视本国公民能力的国会共和党人中存在争议。
众议院共和党领导层截至周五认为，足够多的保守派会接受他们最新的《外国情报监控法》提案，长期资金最终可能会在众议院获得通过，然后送交参议院。但上周晚些时候参加与约翰逊会议的一名保守派人士告诉CNN，他们仍对领导层的提案持怀疑态度。
约翰逊阵营中的国家安全鹰派也越来越不安，他们担心授权共和党强硬派对《外国情报监控法》进行重大修改。
目前尚不清楚议长的最新提案能否满足他的右翼阵营，因为该提案几乎没有解决搜查令方面的担忧。如果约翰逊无法获得本党议员的批准，他可能需要转向民主党人。
议员和高级助手承认，约翰逊要组建两党联合阵营，比试图满足其会议中的每一名共和党人要容易得多。
这需要与民主党领导人合作，要么帮助共和党通过被称为规则投票的程序性障碍，要么帮助在所谓的“暂停投票”中获得大量票数——这种投票通常保留给无争议的法案，需要众议院三分之二的支持。
这对约翰逊来说是一个熟悉的难题：他正以历史上最微弱的众议院多数席位之一进行周旋：要么与民主党人合作推进必须通过的法案，要么找到一种方法安抚保守派，同时又不失去温和派的支持。
“我猜他们会遇到规则问题，也许只有在第二次碰壁之后，他们才会决定是时候与民主党人合作了，”康涅狄格州民主党众议员吉姆·希姆斯说，他指的是这项措施在全院众议院进行表决之前必须通过的程序性投票。
与此同时，普通共和党议员越来越不满少数保守派主导了——无论是在《外国情报监控法》还是国土安全部停摆问题上——整个进程并拖慢了节奏。
“别再跟那些根本不想达成共识的共和党人玩绕弯子的游戏了，”内布拉斯加州众议员唐·培根告诉CNN。“我们一直在努力迁就20个人。这就是国会的弊病所在。这些家伙想用仅有的218票来统治，这就给了20或10个人权力，这根本不对。”
但这不仅仅是培根的观点，也不仅仅是关于《外国情报监控法》的问题。
周五，在枪击事件发生前，培根和其他几名来自摇摆选区的共和党人致信领导层，敦促约翰逊将不包含移民执法资金的国土安全部资金法案提交众议院表决。参议院已经两次通过了该法案，但由于约翰逊不得不应对保守派的反对——他们不愿投票支持取消美国移民和海关执法局以及美国海关和边境保护局资金的任何法案，该法案一直在众议院搁置。尽管众议院也持有参议院通过的预算提案，该提案启动了为这些移民执法机构提供资金的进程，但这可能不足以满足保守派的要求，他们希望纳入额外条款，如SAVE法案和削减赤字，这可能会进一步拖慢进程。
约翰逊还面临保守派的压力，要求在立法中纳入额外条款，因为许多人认为这可能是中期选举前推进他们自身优先事项的最后机会，尽管领导层已经为日后再通过另一项党派路线协调法案敞开了大门。
然而，多名消息人士告诉CNN，许多共和党领导层人士对另一项庞大的政策法案能否在中期选举前在国会获得通过持怀疑态度。
一些强硬派保守派并不相信共和党领导人会全力推动该法案通过。他们认为约翰逊所谓的“和解3.0”法案的承诺是不真诚的，并可能威胁在本周搁置国土安全部资金法案，除非他们能获得更多保证。
CNN的安妮·格雷尔对本文亦有贡献。
Hill GOP braces for ‘nightmare week’ as pressure mounts to end DHS funding standoff
2026-04-27T17:13:26.287Z / CNN
By Sarah Ferris, Lauren Fox
PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2026, 1:13 PM ET
House Speaker Mike Johnson at the US Capitol on April 20, 2026.
Francis Chung/POLITICO/AP
Top Republicans on Capitol Hill have spent 10 weeks struggling to end the bitter stalemate over funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
Now, as federal workers — including US Secret Service agents who protected the president in this weekend’s shooting in Washington — prepare to miss a paycheck, GOP leaders are under more pressure than ever before to resolve the standoff.
Congressional Republicans return to DC Monday evening with a slew of contentious votes ahead that have fiercely divided the party, including the critical DHS funding measure. But there are other must-pass bills that still don’t have the votes to pass in the narrowly divided House, according to GOP leadership aides, including a bill overseeing the government’s spy powers that conservative privacy hawks detest and a massive farm bill that’s angered the MAHA bloc of the GOP.
“We’ve got a nightmare week,” one GOP leadership aide told CNN.
Perhaps most difficult for Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune will be ending the 72-day shutdown of DHS, which has thrown into question pay for thousands of federal workers, including the agent who took a bullet to the vest at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner this weekend. DHS has so far paid staff out of a previously approved $10 billion rainy day fund – but that money will be depleted soon, aides have warned. The expectation is that staffers would receive only one more paycheck from that fund before it runs out.
“We have to move DHS funding because it’s urgent. As the secretary of Homeland Security has said. We are out of money. He is out of money at the end of this week. Democrats have been playing games with this. It’s very dangerous as demonstrated Saturday night. We got to get the job done,” Johnson said Monday when asked if he would move on that funding this week.
Resolving the DHS funding crisis was already a nearly impossible task for Johnson and the fractious House GOP. The party is in a bitter feud over how to reopen DHS, with conservatives enraged that Thune decided to bow to Democratic demands to only partially fund the department – without money for immigration enforcement. It has set off a frantic scramble to pass a separate – and legislatively complex – package of only federal immigration enforcement and border patrol funding, though that has been bogged down by other hardliner demands.
Saturday’s gunfire at one of Washington’s most high-profile annual events has further complicated talks, with some of those hardliner Republicans, like Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, demanding that the party set aside funding for a “secure ballroom” on White House grounds for the president to safely hold events. (Many of them already had major demands for the DHS vote, including tying the measure to Trump’s federal elections overhaul bill, as well as a promise for an ambitious domestic policy push sometime before the midterms.)
The DHS shutdown – already the longest in history – is now threatening to have dire consequences for officials charged with protecting US borders.
One Republican member who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss ongoing conversations with DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin told CNN that there are concerns at the agency that there could be “serious consequences” if the House doesn’t move DHS funding soon.
Mullin himself has used his many TV appearances in recent weeks to warn that the money is running dry.
While headline-making airport lines have abated after Trump unilaterally moved to pay Transportation Security Administration workers, other areas overseen by DHS like the Coast Guard are running up against the constraints of existing funding streams.
“You have agencies that are not TSA and not getting paid like (the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency). And the Coast Guard is running out of options,” the member said. “Cyber security is a big deal. And you cannot hire any staff and you aren’t able to give them any guarantees. They are going to start leaving the agency.”
Other brewing battles
GOP leaders must also figure out how to defuse a legislative landmine that’s already led to two failed votes on the House floor: renewing a government spy authority that’s critical to US surveillance overseas.
That tool, which is known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, is contentious among the many Hill Republicans who are distrustful of the government’s ability to spy on its citizens without a warrant.
House GOP leadership believed as of Friday that enough conservatives would accept their latest FISA proposal and longer-term funding could finally pass the chamber, sending it to the Senate. But one conservative who attended a meeting with Johnson late last week told CNN they were still skeptical of leadership’s proposal.
National security hawks in Johnson’s ranks are also increasingly uneasy about empowering GOP hardliners to tackle major changes to FISA.
It remains unclear whether the speaker’s latest proposal will satisfy his right flank given the changes do little to address the warrant concerns. If Johnson can’t win the approval from his own party, he may need to turn to Democrats.
Lawmakers and senior aides have acknowledged that Johnson could much more easily put together a coalition of Republicans and Democrats rather than try to satisfy every Republican in his conference.
That would require cooperation from Democratics leaders, either by helping the GOP get through a procedural hurdle known as a rule vote, or by helping to deliver a wide swath of votes in what’s known as a “suspension vote,” which is typically reserved for noncontroversial bills and requires two-thirds support in the House.
It’s a familiar conundrum for Johnson as he navigates one of the slimmest House margins in history: Work with Democrats to move must-pass bills or find a way to satiate conservatives without losing moderate support.
“I gotta suspect they are gonna have a rules issue and then maybe only then when they faceplant a second time, will they decide it’s time to work with Democrats,” Democratic Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut said, referring to that procedural vote that must pass before the measure can be taken up by the full House.
Meanwhile, there is growing animosity from rank-and-file Republicans that a handful of conservatives are dictating the process – on both FISA and the DHS shutdown – and dragging it out.
“Let’s stop doing the pretzel twister game with Republicans who never want to get to yes anyway,” Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska told CNN. “We are trying to accommodate 20 people. This is what is broken about Congress. These guys want to rule with just 218 and that gives power to 20 or 10 depending on the issue and that just ain’t right.”
But it’s not just Bacon – and it’s not just about FISA.
On Friday, before the shooting, Bacon and a handful of other Republicans from swing districts sent a letter to leadership urging Johnson to bring the DHS funding bill that includes everything but immigration enforcement funding to the floor for a vote.
The Senate passed it twice already but it has languished in the House as Johnson has had to contend with conservatives who argue they don’t want to vote for anything that zeroes out funding for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and US Customs and Border Protection. But while the House also holds the Senate-passed budget proposal that begins the process of funding those immigration enforcement agencies, it may not be enough for conservatives who want to include additional items like the SAVE Act and deficit reduction, which could further drag out the process.
Johnson is also facing pressure from conservatives to include additional items in the legislation, since many view it as perhaps the last opportunity to push their own priorities before the midterms even as leadership has kept the door open to moving yet another party-line reconciliation bill down the line.
Many in GOP leadership, however, are skeptical that another massive policy bill can pass Congress before the midterms, multiple sources have told CNN.
And some hardline conservatives don’t believe GOP leaders will adequately try to push it through. They believe Johnson’s promises for a so-called “Reconciliation 3.0” bill are disingenuous and may threaten to hold up the DHS funding bill this week unless they can extract some more assurances.
CNN’s Annie Grayer contributed to this report.