Meltdown’: DHS shutdown set to drag on after House GOP rejects Senate deal

House Republicans moved Friday to further extend the six-week shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, snubbing a bipartisan Senate bill that would fund the vast majority of DHS agencies through September and moving ahead with a plan of their own that stands little chance of becoming law.

All Republicans and three Democrats — moderate Reps. Don Davis of North Carolina, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington and Henry Cuellar of Texas — voted in favor of a temporary extension of all DHS funding through May 22, including immigration enforcement. The gavel came down on the 213-203 vote just before midnight Saturday morning, when the agency shutdown will become the longest funding lapse in U.S. history.

The measure will not pass the Senate, which has adjourned for a two week recess through April 13 with no imminent plans to reconvene.

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