House Republicans on Friday night rejected a bipartisan Senate deal to partially reopen the Department of Homeland Security, instead passing their own eight-week stopgap measure in a 213-203 vote that prolongs the federal government’s 42-day shutdown that has crippled airport security nationwide.

The dramatic late-night vote, with three Democrats voting with all Republicans in favor — Reps. Henry Cuellar of Texas, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington and Don Davis of North Carolina — came after Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., flatly rejected a Senate-passed bill that would have funded most of DHS but excluded Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol operations.

“Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the House GOP’s offer is ‘dead on arrival’ in the upper chamber,” effectively ensuring the shutdown will continue when both chambers return from a two-week Easter recess on April 13.

The House measure would fund every agency under the Department of Homeland Security at current levels through May 22 , but faces certain defeat in the Democratic-controlled Senate where it lacks the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster.

Johnson’s decision represents a stunning rebuke to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., who had spent weeks negotiating the compromise that passed by voice vote with no objections from either side just after 2 a.m. Friday morning.

“This gambit that was done last night is a joke,” Johnson said Friday, though he was careful to blame Senate Democrats rather than Thune for the breakdown.

The standoff has created the longest partial government shutdown in history, eclipsing the record 43-day shutdown last fall that affected the entire federal government. The DHS shutdown began February 14 and has devastated air travel across the country.

Transportation Security Administration officials testified this week that the agency has already lost more than 480 transportation security officers during this shutdown , with callout rates accelerating. At some airports, 40 to 50% of their workforce is calling out of work on certain days, leading to “the highest wait times in TSA history, with some wait times greater than four and a half hours,” TSA official Ha Nguyen McNeill told the House Homeland Security Committee.

In response to the crisis, President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order directing DHS to pay TSA workers from other agency funds. “TSA officers should begin seeing paychecks as early as Monday, March 30,” the department said in a statement.

The breakdown exposes deep fractures within the Republican Party over immigration enforcement. Conservative House members, led by the Freedom Caucus, have demanded full funding for ICE and Border Patrol operations, while Senate Republicans had agreed to exclude those agencies to win Democratic support.

“In my opinion, you can’t have a bill that’s not going to fund ICE. You can’t have a bill that’s not going to fund any form of law enforcement, of which ICE is a big form, and so is Border Patrol,” Trump told Fox News, backing Johnson’s position.

Democrats have refused to fund immigration enforcement agencies without reforms following the deaths of two Americans protesting the sweeping immigration crackdown in Minneapolis . They want provisions requiring immigration officers to wear identification and body cameras, boosting training standards and restricting enforcement in sensitive locations .

“Throughout it all, Senate Democrats stood united — no wavering, no backing down. Senate Democrats were clear: no blank check for a lawless ICE and Border Patrol,” Schumer said on the Senate floor after passage.

The impasse has created an unusual dynamic where House Republicans are directly challenging their Senate GOP counterparts. House Republican Conference chair Lisa McClain, R-Mich., said she would have “appreciated” a “heads up” from Thune before the Senate passed its bill early Friday morning. Asked if she felt blindsided, McClain told NBC News, “Yes.”

Behind the scenes, tensions have been building for weeks. Johnson told reporters he spoke with Thune before rejecting the Senate deal. “I told him it shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody we would not be able to do that. We’re not going to split apart two of the most important agencies in the government and leave them hanging like that,” Johnson said.

Senate Majority Leader Thune has no plans to bring back the Senate because there is no realistic path to passing the House bill , according to a GOP aide, meaning the shutdown will likely continue until lawmakers return from recess.

Republicans plan to address immigration enforcement funding through a separate budget reconciliation bill that would only require a simple majority to pass. “This bill will focus on ensuring ICE and other vital functions of homeland security, as well as the U.S. military and efforts to increase voter integrity, are Democrat-resistance proof,” Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said.

The prolonged shutdown has imposed severe