Trump to address nation about Iran as he signals war could end within weeks

April 1, 2026 4:03pm EDT / Fox News

The message will be an ‘important update’ about the war, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on X

By Morgan Phillips, Fox News

President Donald Trump is expected to address the nation at 9 p.m. Eastern Time Wednesday about U.S. operations in Iran after one month of combat.

The message will be an “important update” about the war, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X.

The president will give an operational update on the mission known as Operation Epic Fury and is expected to reiterate the two-to-three week timeline for a drawdown of the operation that he gave in comments to reporters Tuesday, a White House official told Fox News Digital Wednesday.

“He will highlight the United States military’s success in achieving all of its stated goals prior to the operation: destroy Iran’s deadly ballistic missiles and production facilities, annihilate their Navy, ensure their terrorist proxies can no longer destabilize the region and guarantee that Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon,” the official added.

US EYES SEIZING IRAN’S OIL LIFELINE — BUT IT MAY NOT CRIPPLE TEHRAN

Trump told reporters Tuesday he expected the mission to end in two to three weeks. He posted on Truth Social Wednesday that Iran had asked for a ceasefire, but the U.S. was not open to negotiation until the Strait of Hormuz is open for shipping.

“We will consider when Hormuz Strait is open, free, and clear,” Trump said. “Until then, we are blasting Iran into oblivion or, as they say, back to the Stone Ages!”

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Esmail Baghaei, said the claim that Iran had asked for a ceasefire was “false and baseless,” according to Iranian state TV.

Trump has sent mixed signals in recent days, at times suggesting the conflict could end soon while also threatening intensified strikes if Iran does not meet U.S. demands.

President Donald Trump is expected to address the nation at 9 p.m. ET Wednesday about U.S. operations in Iran after one month of combat.(Alex Brandon/The Associated Press)

The president told multiple news outlets Wednesday he is strongly considering pulling the U.S. out of NATO over frustrations at what he sees as insufficient military support from allied countries in the Middle East.

“I was never swayed by NATO,” Trump told The Telegraph in an interview published Wednesday.

European nations so far have resisted pressure to offer warships to reopen commerce in the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the world’s oil supply typically passes. The average price of a gallon of gas surpassed $4 Tuesday, a first since 2022.

Several key European allies have moved to restrict U.S. military access as the Trump administration presses forward with operations against Iran. Spain has closed its airspace to U.S. aircraft tied to strikes and France is imposing limits on certain overflights carrying military supplies.

The message will be an “important update” about the war, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on X.(Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)

PRESIDENT TRUMP SAYS US COULD FINISH IRAN OPERATION WITHIN TWO TO THREE WEEKS

“We’ve been there automatically, including Ukraine. Ukraine wasn’t our problem. It was a test, and we were there for them, and we would always have been there for them. They weren’t there for us.”

Administration officials have suggested U.S. objectives in the conflict are nearing completion, raising the possibility that Trump could outline a path toward winding down operations.

“I was never swayed by NATO,” Trump told The Daily Telegraph in an interview published Wednesday.(Ben Stansall/Pool via Reuters)

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At the same time, thousands of paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne division and a task force of 2,500 Marines from the USS Tripoli have reached the Central Command theater in recent days, raising speculation of a potential ground invasion.

The USS George H.W. Bush, an aircraft carrier with 6,000 sailors, deployed Tuesday to join the USS Abraham Lincoln already in theater.

Operation Epic Fury began Feb. 28.

Since then, U.S. forces have struck more than 12,000 targets inside Iran and damaged or destroyed 155 naval ships, according to the Central Command. Thirteen U.S. service members have died in the operations, and 350 have been injured.

Ocasio-Cortez says she’ll vote against any military aid to Israel, including for Iron Dome system

2026-04-01T21:26:41.669Z / CNN

By Arit John

2 hr ago

PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2026, 5:26 PM ET

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez attends a news conference with Sen. Bernie Sanders in the US Capitol on March 25.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Tuesday she would vote against sending any military aid to Israel, including defensive supplies, a marked shift from a Democrat deemed a potential 2028 presidential candidate.

Ocasio-Cortez told members of the New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America Tuesday that she would commit to voting no on any military aid spending for Israel, a spokesperson for the lawmaker told CNN.

Her remarks, first reported by City & State, were made at a private forum as members considered whether to endorse her re-election bid.

Her comments come at a time when the Democratic Party is taking on a more critical stance toward the Israeli government and pro-Israel lobbying groups that have spent millions against Democratic candidates who support conditioning aid to Israel.

But many of the party’s best-known officials are still grappling with how to raise their criticisms. California Gov. Gavin Newsom last month backtracked on his recent comments describing Israel as “sort of an apartheid state.” He later told Politico that he meant to say he was concerned Israel would go down that path under the “direction of the far right that [Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] is indulging.”

Ocasio-Cortez has been one of Israel’s sharpest critics in the House, though her approach to defensive aid has wavered over the years. In 2021, she voted “present” on a bill for additional funding for Israel’s Iron Dome, its missile defense system, and said she opposed it. In 2024, Ocasio-Cortez signed onto a letter with progressive lawmakers who said they opposed sending offensive weapons to Israel but “support strengthening the Iron Dome and other defense systems.”

In a statement Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez said allies who need military aid “must understand that we will provide it consistent with the Leahy amendment,” which prohibits sending assistance to foreign security units that have committed human rights violations. Israel has denied allegations from human rights groups that it has committed genocide in Gaza in the wake of Hamas’ October 7 attacks.

“I believe the Israeli government is well able to fund the Iron Dome system, which has proven critical to keep innocent civilians safe from rocket attacks and bombardment,” she said in the statement. “Consistent with my voting record to date, I will not support Congress sending more taxpayer dollars and military aid to a government that consistently ignores international law and US law.”

特朗普限制出生公民权行政令遭美国最高法院质疑

2026年4月2日 07:08 / 联合早报

特朗普限制出生公民权行政令遭美国最高法院质疑

2025年4月2日，美国总统特朗普在白宫玫瑰园就关税问题发表讲话。 （路透社）

美国最高法院对特朗普试图推翻自动出生公民权的举措持怀疑态度，这暗示大法官可能再次否决他的做法，并驳回其移民议程中的关键一环。

在特朗普星期三（4月1日）出席部分庭审的情况下，来自不同意识形态阵营的大法官对特朗普在就职数小时后签署的行政令是否符合宪法和联邦法律提出质疑。长期以来，第十四修正案一直被理解为赋予几乎所有在美国出生的人公民身份。

首席大法官约翰·罗伯茨驳斥了特朗普政府首席出庭律师、美国副总检察长约翰·索尔提出的说法，即美国正面临一个因所谓“生育旅游”等问题而改变既有理解的“新世界”。

彭博社引述罗伯茨说：“这是一个新世界，但宪法还是同一部。”

这起案件正在检验“身为美国人”意味着什么。特朗普在去年重返总统职位的第一天就发布了该行政令，将出生公民权限制在父母至少有一位是美国公民或绿卡持有者的婴儿，这意味着无证移民和临时访客的子女（每年约有25万名）将无法获得自动公民身份。

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美国考虑通过真人秀让移民竞逐美国公民权

国际特稿：特朗普移民大门紧闭 跨过了还有枪口压力

民主党人指出，该计划还将剥夺数百万美国公民的国籍、投票权和获得护照的资格。

特朗普的座位距离大法官仅数英尺，其中包括一些在今年2月裁定推翻全球关税后被总统人身攻击的法官。特朗普在庭审中途、索尔完成陈词前后离场。这是有记录以来现任总统首次出席最高法院口头辩论。

Trump administration lifts sanctions on Delcy Rodriguez, Venezuela’s acting president

April 1, 2026 / 7:09 PM EDT / CBS News

The Trump administration has lifted sanctions on Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez, according to the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, as the U.S. seeks to rebuild ties with the Venezuelan government.

The rollback comes just three months after U.S. forces seized Rodriguez’ predecessor, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife in a daring special forces raid. Both were extradited to New York to face drug trafficking charges and have since pleaded not guilty.

The deletion of Rodriguez’s name from the so-called Specially Designated Nationals list will allow her to access certain blocked assets and deal with U.S.-based enterprises. It’s the latest in a series of moves by the Trump administration to normalize relations with Venezuela, which the U.S. has not had formal diplomatic relations with since 2019.

Last month, the U.S. formally recognized Rodriguez as Venezuela’s leader and began taking steps to reopen the U.S. Embassy in Caracas. Mr. Trump has praised Rodriguez, saying last month she is “doing a great job” and is “working with U.S. Representatives very well.”

Since Maduro’s removal from power, the administration has sought to incentivize U.S. investment in Venezuela’s oil sector, rolling back sanctions to allow American oil companies to spend on infrastructure and production. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum have also led delegations to Venezuela, which holds the world’s largest oil reserves.

A Trump administration official said the removal of sanctions “signals our support for a more constructive U.S.–Venezuela relationship and for expanded private sector engagement that can help advance Venezuela’s economic recovery and democratic transition.”

Another administration official told CBS News the move “reflects our decision to work with the interim authorities led by Delcy Rodríguez in Venezuela.”

Rodriguez acknowledged the removal of sanctions in a post on her Telegram page.

“We value President Donald Trump’s decision as a step toward normalizing and strengthening relations between our countries,” she wrote. “We trust that this progress will allow for the lifting of current sanctions against our country, enabling us to build and guarantee an effective bilateral cooperation agenda for the benefit of our people.”

Rodriguez and several other Maduro government insiders were sanctioned by the U.S. in 2018, part of a diplomatic crisis following Maduro’s reelection that year, which the U.S. and several other countries viewed as rigged. At the time, the Treasury Department said Maduro had made Rodriguez vice president to “help him maintain power and solidify his authoritarian rule.”

In February, one of Venezuela’s opposition leaders, Maria Corina Machado, thanked the Trump administration for removing Maduro from power — but argued Rodriguez cannot be trusted because of her prior ties to Maduro.

In an interview with Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan in February, she said, “everything Delcy Rodríguez is currently doing is because she’s complying with instructions she’s getting from the United States.”

Ibrahim Aksoy contributed to this report.

What Americans think about Donald Trump’s Iran strategy ahead of his White House address

2026-04-01T20:00:14.803Z / CNN

By Ariel Edwards-Levy

Updated 1 hr 48 min ago
Updated Apr 1, 2026, 6:12 PM ET
PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2026, 4:00 PM ET

President Donald Trump speaks at the FII PRIORITY Summit in Miami Beach, Florida, on March 27.

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Just one-third of the public believes President Donald Trump has a clear plan to handle the situation in Iran, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, underscoring the deep skepticism ahead of his Wednesday night White House address on the war.

Americans’ already broad disapproval of US military action in Iran has grown since the start of the war, the poll found. Just 34% of Americans now say they approve at least somewhat of the US decision to take military action in Iran, down 7 points from a CNN poll conducted just after the start of the war. Disapproval has risen to 66%, with strong opposition climbing 12 points to 43%.

With a growing share of the public now calling a long-term military conflict between the US and Iran at least somewhat likely, most Americans are wary of deepening involvement. A 71% majority say they’d oppose Congress authorizing spending $200 billion to fund further US military action in Iran, as the Pentagon has proposed. A similar 68% are opposed to sending ground troops into Iran.

Democrats and independents remain broadly opposed to the US deploying ground troops, but Republicans also break narrowly against the idea. Even Republicans identifying themselves as part of the “Make America Great Again” movement tilt against ground troops: 32% oppose the idea while 25% favor it. Among non-MAGA Republicans, 56% oppose it, with 20% in favor.

Trump’s approval rating for handling the situation in Iran sits at 33%, just below his overall 35% approval rating and his 36% rating for foreign policy. And 33% now say they approve of his handling of the role of commander in chief. That’s down 8 points from a January poll taken in the immediate aftermath of US military action in Venezuela and 5 points below his previous presidential low. About 6 in 10 say he has gone too far in trying to expand America’s power over other countries, little changed since January.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio fares slightly better than the president with a 41% job approval rating, while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s approval rating stands at 35%.

More division within the GOP

Views of the Iran war remain sharply, although not symmetrically, divided along partisan lines: 94% of Democrats and 74% of independents disapprove of military action in Iran, while 28% of Republicans disapprove.

While Democrats are nearly unanimous in their opposition, the poll shows more division within the GOP.

Republicans over the age of 45 are more than twice as likely as younger Republicans to say they strongly approve of Trump’s decision to take military action.

While some prominent MAGA voices have criticized the Iran war, that divide is less evident among the broader public, where those identifying as MAGA remain Trump’s staunchest supporters. Instead, among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, the gap is between the MAGA movement and everyone else. Those who describe themselves as members of the MAGA movement are 40 points likelier than others aligned with the GOP to believe that Trump has a clear plan for handling Iran and 27 points likelier to strongly approve of the decision to take military action.

Is the war worth the costs?

Underlying Americans’ reluctance to consider committing further funding or troops is a broader skepticism about whether the conflict is worthwhile. Asked whether the war in Iran has been worth the toll in American lives and the financial burden to the government, just 29% say yes.

That’s a marked contrast from similar polling taken in the initial days of the Iraq war. Just after the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, 59% of US adults said that the war had been worth the toll in American lives and other costs, a CNN/Time survey found. While that consensus fell away over the following months, that figure was still higher a year later than the share of the public now saying the Iran war was worth the toll.

Concerns about the war’s costs, financially and otherwise, come against a backdrop of heightened economic concerns at home.

Most Americans say they’re following news about the situation in Iran at least somewhat closely. And asked in an open-ended question to name the most important issue facing the US, 13% mentioned the Iran war – a notably high percentage for anything relating to foreign policy. But that still lags far behind the 40% who mentioned economic issues.

For some, the two issues are interlinked.

“We’re involved in a war we shouldn’t be and the economy is collapsing,” wrote one woman who took the survey, a Republican from Idaho.

The CNN poll was conducted by SSRS online and by phone from March 26-30 among a random national sample of 1,201 adults. Results for the full sample have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.

CNN’s Jennifer Agiesta and Edward Wu contributed to this report.

4月1日，在美国马萨诸塞州大巴灵顿，执法人员在逮捕安德鲁·埃默拉德后缴获多件刀具。 （路透社）

美国马萨诸塞州一名男子被控在社交媒体脸书上威胁要杀害美国总统特朗普，并在与执法人员对峙时挥舞长剑，最终被当场逮捕。

路透社报道，45岁的安德鲁·埃默拉德（Andrew Emerald）被控八项罪名，在马萨诸塞州斯普林菲尔德的联邦法院面对控状。他被指控去年发布了一系列威胁性帖子，其中包括一条他扬言如果特朗普在2026年之前没有去世，他将前往特朗普位于佛罗里达州的海湖庄园。他恫言把庄园烧成灰烬。每项罪名最高可判处五年监禁。

起诉书显示，埃默拉德在2025年5月发布的另一条社交媒体帖子中写道：“要么特朗普在2026年之前死去并入土为安，要么我就追杀他，把他送进坟墓。”

埃默拉德的律师尚未对此事作出回应。

根据检方提交的拘留申请文件，埃默拉德的帖子引起了联邦调查局的注意，起因是一位市民举报他威胁总统生命是犯罪行为。

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与伊朗有关联巴基斯坦男子 密谋刺杀特朗普罪成 赫格塞斯：美军击毙试图暗杀特朗普的伊朗头目

联邦调查局特工的宣誓书显示，埃默拉德回应称，他已经在网上威胁特朗普十年之久，并扬言如果执法部门找上门，“我会杀了他们，直到他们杀了我为止”。

联邦调查局人员星期三（4月1日）前往埃默拉德位于马萨诸塞州大巴灵顿（Great Barrington）的住所执行逮捕令时，他拒绝出来，最终却挥舞着一把长长的金属剑出现在众目睽睽之下。

联邦调查局特工说，埃默拉德此前曾在脸书帖子中提及这把剑，威胁特朗普，包括在2025年7月，他扬言要用剑刺穿总统的喉咙。

据联邦调查局探员回忆，埃默拉德告诉探员，他们必须先开枪才能锁上他的门。

联邦调查局探员的宣誓书中写道，当地警方和联邦调查局危机谈判小组到达现场后，一名警官通过电话联系到埃默拉德，他最终同意被捕。

US traffic deaths fall to lowest number since 2019

2026-04-01 6:09 PM UTC / Reuters

By David Shepardson

April 1, 2026 6:09 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago

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April 1 (Reuters) – U.S. traffic deaths last year fell to the lowest number since 2019 after a ​sharp rise in road fatalities during the COVID pandemic.

The National ‌Highway Traffic Safety Administration said traffic deaths fell 6.7% to 36,640 and the fatality rate fell to 1.10 fatalities per 100 million vehicle miles traveled, the ​second lowest in U.S. history. American road deaths jumped dramatically ​during the 2020 COVID pandemic and remained elevated for years.

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U.S. ⁠traffic deaths jumped 10.8% in 2021 to 43,230, the most ​in a single year since 2005. Pedestrians and cyclists killed on American ​roads rose to the highest number in more than four decades.

Jonathan Morrison, who heads the U.S. auto safety agency, said the agency is “doubling down on safety strategies ​that reduce risky driving behaviors before they cost lives.”

This is the ​fourth straight year of declines. Traffic deaths fell 3.8% in 2024 to below ‌40,000 ⁠for the first time since 2020.

As U.S. roads became less crowded during the pandemic, some motorists perceived police as less likely to issue tickets, experts said, resulting in riskier driving. Some drivers were also more ​likely to drive ​while being impaired ⁠by alcohol or drugs consumed at home during the pandemic.

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The U.S. fatality rate rose much higher than ​for other developed nations during the pandemic.

Congress approved $5 billion ​over ⁠five years as part of a $1 trillion 2021 infrastructure law to address road safety.

A 2023 NHTSA study found crashes directly cost taxpayers $30 billion, and ⁠society ​as a whole $340 billion. When quality-of-life valuations ​were included, the total cost to society ran to $1.37 trillion – equivalent to 1.6% of U.S. ​economic output.

Reporting by David Shepardson, Editing by Franklin Paul and Aurora Ellis

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U.S. Justice Department sues Idaho for failure to produce voter rolls

April 1, 2026 5:00 PM UTC / Reuters

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LOS ANGELES, April 1 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department on Wednesday said it sued Idaho for failing to produce voter rolls.

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Activist ship’s collision with krill trawler off Antarctica called “deliberate attack”

April 1, 2026 / 2:30 PM EDT / CBS/AP

A ship operated by a group founded by anti-whaling activist Paul Watson collided with an industrial krill trawler in Antarctica in what the ship’s Norwegian owner said was a “deliberate attack” that endangered its crew and could’ve caused a disaster in the same environmentally sensitive waters the activists claim they want to protect.

A two-minute video provided to The Associated Press by the Aker QRILL Co. shows the moment Tuesday when the M/V Bandero, operated by the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, slowly steams toward the stern of the fishing vessel, hitting its port side at a slight angle.

The collision underscores the growing battle in the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean over the future of Antarctic krill, a shrimplike crustacean central to the diet of whales and critical buffer to global warming that’s also in demand for use in health supplements, fishmeal and other products.

In this image taken from video provided by the Aker Qrill Company shows an activist ship, operated by the Captain Paul Watson Foundation, crashing into the Antarctic Sea, a vessel operated by Aker Qrill Company, on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Antarctica. Aker Qrill Company via AP

Aker said Wednesday that the Bandero came within centimeters of striking a diesel tank on its vessel, the Norwegian-flagged Antarctic Sea, and put at risk a habitat teeming with multiple whale species, seals and seabirds — all feeding on the Southern Ocean’s abundant but environmentally sensitive krill population.

The company said its multinational crew was shaken but unharmed and it would pursue all available legal action.

“Our crew were put at risk in some of the most remote waters on Earth, and only luck avoided potential environmental damage,” Aker CEO Webjørn Barstad said in a statement.

“If the steel plates (…) had ruptured, it could have caused a spill. It was probably just luck that it didn’t cause more damage,” Barstad told the Reuters news agency.

In a statement to Reuters, the Captain Paul Watson Foundation said that it was “an accidental collision” and that it was committed to “lawful, responsible, non-violent action in defense of marine ecosystems”.

In its own news release, the foundation characterized its actions as “aggressive nonviolence.” It said the crew, led by French activist Lamya Essemlali, managed to disrupt all krill fishing during a five-hour “direct intervention” against two Aker-owned vessels. It also provided images showing the crew launching giant metal net shredding devices intended to disrupt fishing.

“David-and-Goliath scenario”

Watson himself was not on the ship, which departed Australia last month as part of what the Watson foundation called Operation Krill Wars.

“Throughout the encounter, the crew witnessed Antarctic wildlife in the surrounding waters, including penguins, seals, and even a whale, underscoring what was at stake as a small ship challenged a powerful industrial krill operation in a stark David-and-Goliath scenario,” the foundation said in a statement.

Watson founded the global Sea Shepherd conservation movement in the 1970s and for decades won a fearsome reputation for ramming vessels and other aggressive tactics in confrontations on the high seas that repeatedly landed him in jail. He was last detained in Greenland for five months in 2024 on a Japanese warrant that was later rejected by Denmark. Japan’s coast guard sought his arrest over an encounter in 2010 in which he was accused of ordering a captain of his ship to throw explosives at what the Japanese labeled a whaling research ship.

Last year, Interpol removed its most-wanted designation for Watson over the 2010 incident. Watson told CBS News in 2014 that the warrant was issued for trespassing and said that “it’s all very political.”

While the Canadian-American citizen in the past has drawn support from Hollywood celebrities, his hard-line tactics have split the movement he started, with affiliates in France and Brazil rallying behind his newly created namesake foundation while Sea Shepherd Global and 20 national affiliates focus more on watchdog patrols on the high seas, policy action and supporting law enforcement in poorer countries where illegal fishing is rampant.

Fishing in Antarctica for krill surged to a record last season, forcing an early closure of fishing activity for the first time.

Aker is the world’s largest harvester of krill, responsible for over half the world’s catch.

“The krill are taken directly from the feeding grounds of whales, seals and penguins and expanding krill extraction poses a serious threat to the Antarctic ecosystem,” the Captain Paul Watson Foundation said in its statement. “Krill are a foundational species, serving as the primary food most marine life, without krill the entire food chain would collapse.”

The remote fishery is managed by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, an international organization composed of 27 nations and the European Union.

Any investigation into the incident, including possible criminal prosecution, is likely to commence at the Mongolia-flagged Bandero’s next port of call. Under international maritime law, an overtaking vessel has an obligation to stay clear of any nearby ship it’s passing.

Bandero is named after the tequila company owned by John Paul DeJoria, an American billionaire who founded Paul Mitchell hair care products and has been a longtime supporter of Watson’s endeavors.

US Congress to pass bills to fully fund Homeland Security, Republican leaders say

2026-04-01T17:05:07.022Z / Reuters

By Richard Cowan and Nolan D. McCaskill

April 1, 2026 5:05 PM UTC Updated 17 mins ago

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WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) – Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday ​said they will take a two-pronged approach to ending the legislative ‌deadlock over Department of Homeland Security funding by passing a bill soon to end the partial agency shutdown and attempting to follow up with another bill providing money ​for the remainder of the Trump administration.

Congress “will fully reopen the Department, ​make sure all federal workers are paid, and specifically fund ⁠immigration enforcement and border security for the next three years,” Senate Majority ​Leader John Thune and House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said in a ​joint statement.

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Congress is in the midst of a two-week recess.

But the next legislative action is expected to come early on Thursday, when the Senate is scheduled to hold a “pro ​forma” session that usually operates for a very short period of time ​and with few senators in the chamber.

The goal, according to a source with knowledge ‌of the ⁠plan, is to again approve a DHS funding bill that the Senate unanimously passed last week, but the House rejected. That bill would fund DHS to September 30, the end of this fiscal year.

The longer-term funding will ​take longer to ​compose and could ⁠be through a process that excludes Democrats.

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President Donald Trump said he was working with Johnson and Thune to fund ​immigration agents through a process that bypasses the Senate filibuster.

“We ​are ⁠going to work as fast, and as focused, as possible to replenish funding for our Border and ICE Agents,” Trump said in a post on Truth ⁠Social.

“I am ​asking that the Bill be on my ​desk NO LATER than June 1st,” he said.

Reporting by Richard Cowan and Nolan D. McCaskill in ​Washington and Bhargav Acharya in Toronto; Editing by Daphne Psaledakis and Rosalba O’Brien

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