The House on Thursday passed a bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, effectively ending the partial government shutdown that began in February. The funding bill's passage comes after more than a month of House Republican opposition to the plan , which advanced unanimously out of the Senate in late March. The White House had warned that emergency funding for DHS would run out as soon as Friday. "Speaker Johnson extended the DHS shutdown for over a month for no reason at all. This is the same bill the Senate unanimously passed five weeks ago," Senate Appropriations Chair Patty Murray, D-Wash., said in a statement. The bill wards off the potential for more missed paychecks to Transportation Security Administration agents, whose lack of pay earlier this year caused long lines at airports throughout the country. TSA staff work at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on March 13, 2025.…