President Donald Trump says he will sign an order instructing the Homeland Security secretary to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration workers as Congress struggles to reach a deal.

Senators are expected to vote Thursday on a Republican proposal that would fund the Transportation Security Administration and much of the Department of Homeland Security, except the enforcement and removal operations conducted

Lawmakers and the White House moved toward a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security more than a month after the agency shut down.

The deal under discussion would fund the department except for the part of Immigration and Customs Enforcement charged with arresting and deporting undocumented immigrants.

Conservative Republicans are pushing back on a GOP plan to reopen the Department of Homeland Security. Stock futures jumped after The New York Times reported that the US had offered Iran a peace deal.

Travel disruptions have deepened as senators are racing to salvage a proposal to end the Homeland Security shutdown

US senators on Thursday are pushing for a deal to end the disruptive shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security as key lawmakers from both parties negotiated immigration policy and President Donald Trump struck a hard line on the talks.

A gang of top senators from both parties are engaged in a furious push to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, with GOP leaders describing the current round of talks as their “last and final offer” for Democrats to take the deal.