US Congress to pass bills to fully fund Homeland Security,

Republican leaders in the U.S. Congress on Wednesday said they will take a two-pronged approach to ending the legislative deadlock over Department of

Homeland Security funding by passing a bill soon to end the partial agency shutdown and attempting to follow up with another bill providing money for the remainder of the Trump administration.



Congress "will fully reopen the Department, make sure all federal workers are paid, and specifically fund immigration enforcement and border security for the next three years," Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said in a joint statement.



Congress is in the midst of a two-week recess.



But the next legislative action is expected to come early on Thursday, when the Republican-controlled Senate is scheduled to hold a "pro forma" session that usually operates for a very short period of time and with few senators in the chamber.