Government Shutdown Ends 2026: House Passes DHS Budget 215-211, Ending Longest Shutdown in US History
# Government Shutdown Ends 2026: House Passes DHS Budget 215-211, Ending Longest Shutdown in US History
> **Quick answer:** The House passed a DHS funding bill on April 30, 2026, ending a 76-day government shutdown — the longest for any federal department in US history. The vote was 215-211, largely along party lines. The deal funds most of DHS immediately while routing a separate $70 billion immigration enforcement package for ICE and CBP through budget reconciliation, removing Democratic leverage over those agencies.
The longest government shutdown in American history is officially over. After 76 days without funding, the Department of Homeland Security finally received its budget when President Trump signed the House-passed bill into law on April 30, 2026. The government shutdown ends a brutal standoff that left Coast Guard personnel facing utility shutoffs, sent more than 1,000 TSA officers quitting mid-crisis, and put Secret Service agents in the surreal position of stopping a gunman at the White House Correspondents' Dinner while technically working without their next paycheck guaranteed.
## How the Government Shutdown Ended: The 215-211 Vote Explained
The House passed the Senate's bipartisan DHS funding package on April 30, 2026, with a 215-211 vote that broke almost entirely along party lines. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who had proposed a version of this same bill 70 days earlier, reacted with a terse "It is about damn time."
The bill funds most DHS operations — including the Coast Guard, FEMA, TSA, and the Secret Service — for the remainder of fiscal year 2026. What it does NOT fund, at least not through this vehicle, is Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. Those two agencies are being funded separately through the budget reconciliation process, which Republicans can pass without Democratic votes. The reconciliation package earmarks up to $70 billion in new immigration enforcement funding, and Speaker Mike Johnson made clear that holding the DHS bill hostage was deliberate strategy: "We held the homeland bill because we had to ensure that they could not isolate and eliminate those two critical agencies."