Here's your latest DHS shutdown 2026 updates and news as the Senate returns today amid the ongoing partial government shutdown, snarling air travel.

He didn’t exactly walk into the Pacific Ocean on a calm day,” said Republican Rep. Mark Amodei, who chairs the Appropriations subcommittee that funds DHS.

After weeks of start and stop negotiations between Congressional Democrats and the White House, there's an emerging proposal to fund the majority of DHS and tackle ICE enforcement funding separately.

Senate Democrats blocked a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security after they could not reach terms on a bill 41 days into its shutdown.

Congress could finally be on track to end the nearly six-week DHS shutdown. The Senate called an end to weeks of tortured negotiations and, as Jordain Carney and Jennifer Scholtes report, voice-voted a bill funding all of DHS except ICE and parts of CBP around 2:30 this morning — essentially delivering exactly what Democrats had asked for in recent days.

ICE arrested five illegal immigrants convicted of manslaughter, child sexual assault, and carjacking, according to DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis.

The Senate unanimously moved to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and part of Customs and Border Protection, in a rare overnight session.