Republican lawmakers tore into their “lazy” Senate counterparts for not doing their job by passing an incomplete Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill and then skipping town for another extended vacation.
The GOP-controlled upper chamber pulled a fast one when Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) held a vote in the wee hours of the morning to advance the bill amid chaos at the nation’s airports, but without money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, a big win for Democrats who are at fault for the partial shutdown.
House Republicans rejected the sneaky Senate move and, on Friday, passed a stopgap bill to fund DHS in its entirety for eight weeks, but it’s going to need the Senate to act, and they fled D.C. for a two-week Easter recess, drawing an angry reaction from Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas), who went off on the senators.
🚨 REP. CHIP ROY ABSOLUTELY UNLEASHES: “Could the Senate be any more LAZY than to send to us a bill that doesn’t do the job and then leave town?!”
“So we’re going to stand up and say NO to that. We’re going to send back a bill that’s responsible to the American people!”
“It is… pic.twitter.com/bV7p7AUSbw
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) March 27, 2026
“It is absolutely offensive to the people that we represent that the Senate would send over a bill that doesn’t fund Border Patrol and the core components of ICE,” the vociferous Texan told reporters at the Capitol on Friday.
“It’s absurd,” he continued. “And the fact that they would expect us to take that up and pass it today as they leave town, I mean, could the Senate be any more lazy than to send to us a bill that doesn’t do the job and then leave town?”
“So we’re gonna stand up and say no to that. We’re gonna send back a bill that’s responsible that American people can get behind us,” he added, emphasizing that the House will do its job by passing a bill to secure the country and send it back over to the Senate.
“Our colleagues on other side of the aisle flat out refuse to do the job of funding the operations necessary to secure the United States of America. I support the Speaker in making sure that we do our job right now to send back to the Senate a bill that will fully fund these operations so that we can get back to defending this country.” Roy’s press office said in a Friday post to X, quoting the congressman.
Rep. Roy in @RulesReps: “Our colleagues on other side of the aisle flat out refuse to do the job of funding the operations necessary to secure the United States of America. I support the Speaker in making sure that we do our job right now to send back to the Senate a bill that… pic.twitter.com/fc2ysi2a8v
— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) March 27, 2026
Roy wasn’t the only House Republican to take offense at the “lazy” Senate’s sloppy bill.
“This gambit that was done last night is a joke,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters on Friday. “I’m quite convinced that it can’t be that every Senate Republican read the language of this bill.”
“The only thing we’re going to support is adding that funding into the bill, adding voter ID, sending it back to the Senate, make them come back in and do their work. The bottom line is, this deal is bad for America,” House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris (R-Md.) told the press.
On Friday, President Donald J. Trump told Fox News that the Senate’s bill “wasn’t appropriate,” and that “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,” he added.
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