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Congress ends record shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security ⁠38%

By Eric McDaniel⁠51%

4/30/2026, 5:36:46 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Politically Left Leaning Bias, Negativity Bias, and Optimism Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 40.7% saturation with 189 hits. Analysis detected 607 faulty-reasoning hits from 464 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 44% and a BS Rank of ⁠38% (13,656 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 62.40% of the article peer group.

The House of Representatives voted Thursday to reopen most of the Department of Homeland Security, ending the longest agency shutdown in U.S. history. 
The House passed a bill funding DHS, minus dollars for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. 
The measure passed by voice vote on what was the 76th day of the shutdown. 
Democrats refused to back funding for many of the agency's immigration functions in an unsuccessful effort to secure reforms including body-worn cameras and broad restrictions on face coverings after federal law enforcement killed two American citizens in Minnesota earlier this year. 
The Senate, led by Republican Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., unanimously advanced this funding legislation in March. 
At the time, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., referred to the proposal as "a joke" and refused to bring it up for a vote. 
Many members of the House Republican conference refused to fund the agency in a piecemeal fashion and did not want to negotiate over reforms to immigration enforcement operations. 
On April 1, Johnson reversed course. 
He announced the funding bill would be voted on "in the coming days." 
More than four weeks later, he finally made good on that commitment. 
In an effort to appease his hardline members, Johnson waited to bring the Senate's proposal to a vote until that chamber's Republicans started the arcane procedural process, known as reconciliation, to fund all of DHS — including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) — for the remainder of Trump's term without any backing from Democrats. 
"Sometimes when you have a small margin as we do, people have different ideas, different priorities about very contentious pieces of legislation, but we got it done because ultimately we just used patience and frankly prayer and we get a lot of people together and we listen to their concerns and we try to get the disparate priorities handled," Johnson said Thursday. 
The funding bill comes as Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin warned the agency was close to running out of funds to pay staff. 
"We have reached all the emergency funds we can reach into," Mullin told Fox News on Friday. 
"I am completely out of the slush fund, I have no place to move at the end of the month." 
Mullin said the agency was relying on appropriated funds from last year's One Big Beautiful Bill, which allocated more than $150 billion to DHS on top of its regular annual appropriations funding. 
President Trump signed a memo this month authorizing DHS to use some of the money from that legislation to fund the department's operations — potentially infringing on the powers granted to Congress by the Constitution to direct how taxpayer money is spent. 
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464 words analyzed.

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Mike Johnson

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0%27.5%55.0%Biased Writer Voice-51.8 ptsWriter: 51.8%Mike Johnson: 0.0%0.0%Politically Left Leaning B-27.9 ptsWriter: 27.9%Mike Johnson: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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