Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman.
Congress has passed legislation funding most of the Department of Homeland Security.
The agency's been without full funding since mid-February.
President Trump has signed this into law.
NPR's Claudia Grisales says DHS had been shuffling money around to pay some of its employees.
The Senate passed a plan five weeks ago to.
Fund the agency, except for some immigration enforcement divisions, that could not get through the House.
So the White House redirected government funds to pay DHS workers despite questions over the legality of that decision.
And now the agency was about to run out of that new money.
So the House had to act.
NPR's Claudia Grisaldis reporting.
The immigration enforcement operations within DHS were not funded in this bill,
but those employees are still getting paid.
They were provided for last year when Congress passed the one big, beautiful bill that President Trump backed.
It's been 60 days since President Trump began attacking Iran.
The War Powers Resolution of 1973 mandates a president must get authorization
from Congress to continue a war after 60 days.
But in Senate testimony yesterday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth waved that off.
He claims.
The current ceasefire with Iran has paused the legal obligation.