House Passes GOP DHS Bill; Senate Deadlock Continues; Trump and Canada PM Carney Hold First Call

House Republicans passed a 60-day DHS funding bill on March 28 that fully funds ICE and Border Patrol, rejecting the bipartisan Senate-passed bill from the prior night that excluded those immigration enforcement agencies as a Democratic condition. Senate Democrats immediately signaled the House bill was dead on arrival, leaving DHS in its longest funding lapse — now exceeding six weeks. Trump's executive order to restore TSA agent pay had provided some short-term relief but the structural deadlock remained unresolved, with 480+ officer resignations and hour-long security lines persisting at major airports. In a separate development, President Trump and newly installed Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke by phone in what both described as 'cordial and extremely productive' — their first direct conversation since Carney took office. Carney warned of Canadian retaliatory tariffs if US reciprocal tariffs planned for April 2 take effect on Canadian goods; both leaders agreed to begin comprehensive negotiations on a new bilateral economic and security relationship following Canada's scheduled April 28 federal election. Canada had already imposed C$30 billion in retaliatory tariffs on US goods in response to earlier Trump tariffs on steel and aluminum.