--- title: After 75 Days, the DHS Shutdown Is Over description: President Trump signed a measure to end the longest shutdown in American history. canonical: https://time.com/article/2026/04/30/dhs-shutdown-funding-bill-house-vote/ author: Chantelle Lee article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2026-04-30T18:40:00.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-30T21:37:58.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: After 75 Days, the DHS Shutdown Is Over og:description: President Trump signed a measure to end the longest shutdown in American history. og:url: https://time.com/article/2026/04/30/dhs-shutdown-funding-bill-house-vote/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82a6e36831689089/69f39df84bdd6770d15d6fbe/Shutdown-Ends.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Shutdown-Ends.jpg og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: After 75 Days, the DHS Shutdown Is Over twitter:description: President Trump signed a measure to end the longest shutdown in American history. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82a6e36831689089/69f39df84bdd6770d15d6fbe/Shutdown-Ends.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # After 75 Days, the DHS Shutdown Is Over ## Video: House Passes Bill to Fund the DHS, Ending 75-Day Government Shutdown [Watch (HLS stream): House Passes Bill to Fund the DHS, Ending 75-Day Government Shutdown](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/a8hw8pd2.m3u8) (0:50)  _Published 2026-04-30. President Trump signed a measure to end the longest shutdown in American history._ by [Chantelle Lee](https://time.com/author/chantelle-lee/) ## Chantelle Lee Reporter Updated: Apr 30, 2026 9:37 PM UTCPublished: Apr 30, 2026 6:40 PM UTC by [Chantelle Lee](https://time.com/author/chantelle-lee/) ## Chantelle Lee Reporter Updated: Apr 30, 2026 9:37 PM UTCPublished: Apr 30, 2026 6:40 PM UTC The [longest government shutdown](https://time.com/7325137/government-shutdown-longest-history/) in American history ended on Thursday with President Donald Trump’s [sign](https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/04/congressional-bill-h-r-7147-signed-into-law/)ature on an appropriations bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that was passed by the House earlier that day after previously being approved by the Senate. The bill funds much of DHS through Sept. 30, including the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. But the legislation doesn’t include funding for immigration enforcement agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and parts of Border Patrol. The shutdown [began on Feb. 14](https://time.com/7378601/government-shutdown-congress-ice-dhs-democrats-polls/) amid a bitter standoff between Democrats and Republicans over immigration enforcement that was spurred by federal officers [fatally shooting](https://time.com/7368923/minneapolis-ice-operation-protests-renee-good-alex-pretti/) two American citizens in Minneapolis at the start of the year. Democratic lawmakers refused to pass a funding bill for DHS unless it included [new guardrails](https://time.com/7358586/government-shutdown-democrat-demands-ice/) on federal immigration agents. But Republicans rejected their demands, arguing that such measures would impede the Trump Administration’s immigration enforcement agenda. The lapse in appropriations left thousands of DHS staffers [working without pay](https://time.com/article/2026/04/03/dhs-shutdown-funding-impacts-cybersecurity-terrorism-disasters-immigration/) for weeks, including TSA officers. Many TSA agents called out of work or quit the force entirely to take on other jobs to pay their bills, [throwing air travel into chaos](https://time.com/article/2026/03/24/airport-wait-times-security-lines-tsa-ice-dhs-shutdown/) as airports struggled with understaffing and travelers [waited in security lines for hours](https://time.com/article/2026/03/25/tsa-long-lines-airports/). Last month, Trump [ordered](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/03/memorandum-for-the-secretary-of-homeland-security-and-the-director-of-the-office-of-management-and-budget/) that TSA officers [be paid](https://time.com/article/2026/03/27/tsa-pay-dhs-shutdown-trump-order-airport-wait-times-lines/) using existing funds, and a few days later [ordered](https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/04/liberating-the-department-of-homeland-security-from-the-democrat-caused-shutdown/) that DHS pay all its employees “with the compensation and benefits that would have accrued to them if not for the Democrat-led DHS shutdown.” But last week, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin [warned](https://time.com/article/2026/04/28/dhs-shutdown-tsa-federal-workers-pay/) that DHS was set to run out of money to pay staffers by the beginning of May. Immigration enforcement agencies have mostly been maintaining their normal operations during the shutdown, with law enforcement officers continuing to receive their paychecks with funds drawn from Trump’s [“Big Beautiful Bill.”](https://time.com/7300177/trump-signs-big-beautiful-bill/) Congressional Republicans are now launching an effort to set aside an additional $70 billion for immigration enforcement. It seemed earlier this month as if lawmakers might be close to reaching a deal to end the partial shutdown; the Senate agreed on April 1 to approve funding for DHS, excluding immigration enforcement agencies. But House Republicans declined to act on that legislation for weeks, until they ultimately voted on the proposal on Thursday. The bill passed by the House includes some guardrails on federal immigration agents that lawmakers agreed on earlier this year, according to [Politico](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/30/congress-ends-record-shattering-dhs-shutdown-00900777). The legislation, though, doesn’t include the new measures that Democrats had been pushing for, such as prohibiting agents from wearing masks. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/article/2026/04/30/dhs-shutdown-funding-bill-house-vote/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/article/2026/04/30/dhs-shutdown-funding-bill-house-vote/"},"headline":"After 75 Days, the DHS Shutdown Is Over","datePublished":"2026-04-30T18:40:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-30T21:37:58.000Z","description":"President Trump signed a measure to end the longest shutdown in American history.","url":"https://time.com/article/2026/04/30/dhs-shutdown-funding-bill-house-vote/","keywords":["Congress","News Desk"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82a6e36831689089/69f39df84bdd6770d15d6fbe/Shutdown-Ends.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Chantelle Lee","jobTitle":"Reporter","url":"https://time.com/author/chantelle-lee/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt82a6e36831689089/69f39df84bdd6770d15d6fbe/Shutdown-Ends.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Shutdown-Ends.jpg","caption":"","creditText":"Eric Lee—Bloomberg/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/congress/","name":"Congress"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/article/2026/04/30/dhs-shutdown-funding-bill-house-vote/","name":"After 75 Days, the DHS Shutdown Is Over"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"House Passes Bill to Fund the DHS, Ending 75-Day Government Shutdown","description":"President Trump signed a measure to end the longest shutdown in American history.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/a8hw8pd2/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-04-30T20:16:03.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/a8hw8pd2.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/article/2026/04/30/dhs-shutdown-funding-bill-house-vote/","duration":"PT50S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/article/2026/04/30/dhs-shutdown-funding-bill-house-vote/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```