House Republicans announced today that they will pass a bill, advanced by the Senate last week, to end the record-breaking partial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown, which has lasted 47 days so far.

Last week, GOP in the lower chamber rejected the funding measure to reopen the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the US Coast Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa). Notably, the bill withhold funds from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and part of Customs and Border Protection (CBP). Instead, House Republicans passed a continuing resoltion to keep DHS running through 22 May.

In a joint statement Wednesday, speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority leader John Thune said that congressional Republicans will not attempt to push the stopgap bill – which Democrats say has no chance of clearing the 60-vote threshold in the upper chamber.

Now, they will advance the legislation which hardline House Republicans previously rebuked. They will also seek to pass wider funding for the DHS, which will include funding for enforcement and removal operations, through reconciliation.