GOP tensions over DHS funding intensify between Senate, House Republicans
“I think it was incumbent on them well before this even happened” to pass the Senate bill “with the threat assessment at a very high level given the [conflict] with Iran,” Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) said when asked if the shooting puts pressure on House Republicans to act. “Frankly, it’s ridiculous we haven’t got this resolved,” he said.
- ▪“I think it was incumbent on them well before this even happened” to pass the Senate bill “with the threat assessment at a very high level given the [conflict] with Iran,” Sen.
- ▪Steve Daines (R-Mont.) said when asked if the shooting puts pressure on House Republicans to act.
- ▪“Frankly, it’s ridiculous we haven’t got this resolved,” he said.
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House GOP tensions over DHS funding intensify between Senate, House Republicans Comments: by Alexander Bolton - 04/28/26 6:00 AM ET Comments: Link copied by Alexander Bolton - 04/28/26 6:00 AM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING Tensions between Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) are escalating after Saturday’s shooting at the Washington Hilton put new focus on a stalled Homeland Security funding bill passed by the Senate last month. Members of the Senate Republican leadership team said the assassination attempt against President Trump should spur House Republicans to immediately pass a Senate-approved bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), including the Secret Service, whose officers stopped an armed assailant within a…
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