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国会本周复会，但未安排任何投票，也无重启国土安全部的紧迫感
作者：亚历克斯·米勒、亚当·帕克 福克斯新闻
发布于2026年4月15日 美国东部时间中午12:25
[共和党人誓言无需民主党支持即可结束停摆]
怀俄明州共和党参议员约翰·巴拉索加入《福克纳焦点》节目，讨论他即将与唐纳德·特朗普总统举行的会晤，议题涉及共和党议员结束国土安全部部分停摆的计划。
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美国国土安全部（DHS）停摆于周三进入第60天，但众议院共和党人却成为重启该机构大部分部门的阻碍。
国会于周三全员复会，但却毫无结束这场美国历史上最长政府停摆的紧迫感。相反，众议院正深陷关于延长联邦政府间谍权力的斗争，该权力将于下周到期。
在复活节休会后返回华盛顿后，众议院本周未安排就参议院的国土安全部法案进行投票。
参议院共和党人誓言在移民海关执法局 funding 问题上“单干”，民主党人则加倍推动停摆
众议院议长迈克·约翰逊（路易斯安那州共和党）和众议院少数党领袖哈基姆·杰弗里斯（纽约州民主党）于2026年4月14日周二出席了在解放大厅举行的美国大屠杀纪念博物馆全国纪念日仪式。(汤姆·威廉姆斯/CQ-罗尔公司 via 盖蒂图片社)
尽管这场停摆始于冬季的民主党人手中，但如今责任已落到共和党人肩上，他们正考虑采用党派路线手段，为移民执法提供资金——这是目前拉锯战中的主要症结——以覆盖唐纳德·特朗普总统剩余任期内的相关开支。
“共和党人不得不硬着头皮这么做，”参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（南达科他州共和党）说道。
国土安全部拨款问题的部分症结在于，众议院共和党人对被迫审议参议院的国土安全部拨款法案感到不满，该法案为移民海关执法局（ICE）和海关与边境保护局（CBP）的部分部门预留了资金。
唯一能获得民主党支持的协议是取消对这些机构的拨款，但共和党人表示，他们正被逼到墙角，不得不削减执法部门的资金。
参议院通过法案为国土安全部大部分部门提供资金，此前众议院共和党人屈服
唐纳德·特朗普总统于2026年4月10日在马里兰州安德鲁斯联合基地登上空军一号前，走向记者并回答了问题。(温·麦金太尔/Getty Images)
与此同时，解决方案是推出一项“精简”的预算和解方案，为移民海关执法局和边境巡逻队提供资金，完全将民主党排除在程序之外。
“我们的意图是，现在必须跟进并通过一项和解法案，使这些机构能够在未来三年内继续获得资金，”图恩说道。
他与众议院议长迈克·约翰逊（路易斯安那州共和党）计划于周三下午举行会晤，以协调两院的计划。目前尚不清楚两院能否在众议院定于4月底的下一次休会前，通过相同的预算决议——这是预算和解程序的第一步。
多名众议院共和党人对图恩的评论感到愤怒，图恩曾暗示第二项和解法案应是一项窄范围法案。
“嗯——他不是唯一的声音，对吧？”曾在两项单独立法提案中反对为该部门提供资金的得克萨斯州共和党众议员奇普·罗伊周一在社交媒体上写道。“孤立国土安全部是愚蠢的。孤立移民海关执法局/边境巡逻队更糟。我们应该与整个国土安全部一起推进其他优先事项……我们已经没有时间兑现承诺，也没有时间清理这些反复出现的沼泽式乱象了。”
共和党人抨击“狗屁三明治”协议，全美目光再次转向众议院以结束国土安全部停摆
纽约州民主党参议员、参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默于2026年3月17日周二在华盛顿国会山举行的参议院民主党每周政策午餐会后的新闻发布会上发言。(格雷姆·斯隆/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社)
众议院不会为国土安全部的大部分部门拨款投票，除非这项党派法案提交至特朗普的办公桌。
在与图恩会晤之前，约翰逊表示，众议院将审议参议院的“精简和解”蓝图。
“我们将尽自己的职责，为政府最核心的职能提供资金，然后我们再处理国土安全部的其余部分，”约翰逊说道。
他表示，他预计参议院将在“下周中期到周末”制定并通过其预算蓝图——这是整个和解程序的基础。
“我们将尽可能迅速地推进，”约翰逊说道。
参议院共和党人周二闭门会晤，向其成员推销该计划，这本身可能就颇具挑战，因为一些议员希望通过削减其他部门的资金来为移民海关执法局和边境巡逻队的开支买单——这一立场与共和党领导层背道而驰。
但许多共和党人对即将到来的和解方案的看法与之前的“宏伟法案”不同，该法案最初充斥着大幅削减和补偿措施，以资助特朗普的减税政策。
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他们将此视为正常拨款程序的一个版本，并辩称，正因为如此，他们无需在预算的其他部分寻找削减项目，来为未来三年的移民执法行动提前垫付资金。
“在这个问题上不会，”威斯康星州共和党参议员罗恩·约翰逊，一位坚定的财政鹰派人士说道。
随着结束停摆的政治责任已转移到共和党人身上，民主党人正借此机会抨击他们。
纽约州民主党参议员、参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默表示：“共和党人今天就能解决这个问题。”
“共和党人没有重启国土安全部、为美国人民服务，而是将参议院拖入一场党派闹剧，只是为了逃避对移民海关执法局和边境巡逻队的基本问责，”舒默说道。
亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字频道的撰稿人，负责报道美国参议院事务。
DHS shutdown enters Day 60 with all eyes on House Republicans to end it
2026-04-15T12:25:15-04:00 / Fox News
Congress returned this week with no vote scheduled and no sense of urgency to reopen DHS
By Alex Miller , Adam Pack Fox News
Published April 15, 2026 12:25pm EDT
[Republicans vow to end shutdown without Democratic support]
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., joins ‘The Faulkner Focus’ to discuss his upcoming meeting with President Donald Trump on Republican lawmakers’ plan to end the partial DHS shutdown.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown entered its 60th day on Wednesday, but House Republicans are standing in the way of reopening much of the agency.
Congress returned in full on Wednesday, but there is no sense of urgency to end the longest government shutdown in history. Instead, the House is mired in a fight over extending the federal government’s spying powers, which expire next week.
The House did not schedule a vote on the Senate DHS bill for this week after returning to Washington following the Easter recess.
SENATE GOP VOWS TO ‘GO IT ALONE’ ON ICE FUNDING AS DEMS DOUBLE DOWN ON SHUTDOWN
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., attend the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s National Commemoration of the Days of Remembrance ceremony in Emancipation Hall on Tuesday, April 14, 2026.(Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
Though it’s an issue started by congressional Democrats in the dead of winter, Republicans have now been passed the buck to finish it and are eyeing a party-line maneuver to fund immigration enforcement — the main sticking point in the ongoing back-and-forth — for the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term.
“Republicans have been forced to do this the hard way,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said.
Part of the problem on the DHS funding front is that House Republicans are frustrated that they are being forced to consider the Senate’s Homeland Security funding bill, which carves out Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and parts of Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
The only deal that can pass with Democrats’ support is to remove funding for those agencies, while Republicans say they’re being cornered into defunding law enforcement.
SENATE PASSES BILL TO FUND MOST OF DHS AFTER HOUSE GOP CAVES
President Donald Trump walks toward reporters before answering questions prior to boarding Air Force One on April 10, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md.(Win McNamee/Getty Images)
In the meantime, the solution is to produce a “skinny” budget reconciliation package that funds ICE and Border Patrol, cutting out Democrats from the process entirely.
“The intention is that we now have to come in behind that and pass a reconciliation bill that would enable those agencies to continue to be funded three years into the future,” Thune said.
He and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., are slated to meet Wednesday afternoon to get both chambers in alignment on the plan. For now, it’s unclear whether both chambers can mark up identical budget resolutions — the first step in the budget reconciliation process — prior to the House’s next scheduled recess at the end of April.
Several House Republicans were irate at Thune’s comments suggesting the second reconciliation package should be a narrow bill.
“Well — he isn’t the only voice in this, is he?” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who has advocated against funding the department in two separate legislative vehicles, wrote on social media Monday. “Isolating DHS was stupid. Isolating ICE/CBP is worse. We should move other priorities with ALL of DHS… we’re running out of time to deliver and to clean up these repeated swamp messes.”
GOP RAILS AGAINST ‘S— SANDWICH’ DEAL AS ALL EYES TURN TO HOUSE TO END DHS SHUTDOWN
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, during a news conference following the weekly Senate Democrat policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, March 17, 2026.(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
And the House won’t vote to fund the bulk of DHS until the party-line bill hits Trump’s desk.
Johnson, before his huddle with Thune, said his chamber would take up the Senate’s “skinny reconciliation” blueprint.
“We’re going to do our part and fund the most essential functions of the government, and then we’ll do the rest of Homeland Security,” Johnson said.
He said he expected the upper chamber would have its budget blueprint — which undergirds the entire reconciliation process — crafted and passed by “the middle to the end of next week.”
“We’re going to move it as expeditiously as possible,” Johnson said.
Senate Republicans huddled Tuesday behind closed doors to sell the plan to their members, which, in itself, could prove challenging because of the desire among some to pay for ICE and Border Patrol spending by cutting funding elsewhere — a position that runs counter to GOP leadership.
But many Republicans view the forthcoming reconciliation package in a different light than the previous “big, beautiful bill,” which was initially loaded with steep cuts and offsets to fund Trump’s tax cuts.
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They see it as a version of the normal appropriations process and argue that, because of that, they don’t need to find other parts of the budget to trim to front-load funding for immigration operations for the next three years.
“Not on this one,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., an ardent fiscal hawk, said.
And as the responsibility for ending the shutdown has politically shifted to Republicans, Democrats aren’t wasting the chance to knife them.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said, “Republicans could fix this today.”
“Instead of reopening DHS and delivering for the American people, Republicans are dragging the Senate through a partisan circus just to avoid basic accountability for ICE and Border Patrol,” Schumer said.
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.