Mike Johnson splits from Thune with eight-week DHS funding bill

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House Republicans voiced outrage at the Senate on Friday over a late-night deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security that excluded money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“This gambit that was done last night is a joke,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told reporters, the latest sign that he and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) are not on the same page. “I’m quite convinced that it can’t be that every Senate Republican read the language of this bill.”

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