Trump urging Congress to come back from recess to fund DHS as shutdown drags on, White House says

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: ABC News

March 30, 2026, 5:11 PM


President Donald Trump is encouraging Congress to cut short its two-week recess and return to Washington to fund the Department of Homeland Security amid its ongoing partial shutdown, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday. Lawmakers left the Capitol last week with no deal to fund the department, extending what is already the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history.

"Has he told leadership that they should cancel recess and come back?" ABC News White House Correspondent Karen Travers asked Leavitt during Monday's press briefing.

"He's said it repeatedly," Leavitt said, adding that the president has said "he'll host a big Easter dinner here at the White House if Congress will come back and fight the Democrats on this issue, which we should do, because, again, [the] Democrat Party is in the wrong here."

Although Trump last week publicly called for Congress to cancel recess, he has not publicly called for lawmakers to return to Washington since they left town Friday. ABC News has reached out to the White House for comment on Leavitt's remarks.

Read more: https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-urging-congress-back-recess-fund-dhs-shutdown/story?id=131551734

[Blues Heron]

1. She's such a nasty whore

[AllyCat]

2. She just makes things up out of whole cloth

[modrepub]

3. Didn't Congress Have A Deal Trump Nixed?

That's what I've heard and seen. Wonder why the M$M didn't follow up with a question on why Trump didn't agree with the deal Democrats and Republicans came up with in the Senate (and Johnson nixed)?

I swear, someone should send some savvy high school newsletter reporter to these clown shows to show how you ask questions.

[Ray Bruns]

7. Yep! So what's the point of coming back if trump is just going to shoot everything down?

[liberalgunwilltravel]

4. You had a deal, lardass

You blew it up. Go pound sand.

[SSJVegeta]

5. Isnt the house and senate tired of being jerked around by this asshole?

He is the reason they adjourned in the first place and killed the funding bill the senate passed. If only the house and senate had the power to remove him under some sort of articles of some type. 😒 🤔

[Ray Bruns]

8. Apparently not. I think the Senate is, but Mike Johnson has his lips permanently attached to Trump's ass.

[SergeStorms]

6. Usually they'd do anything Hair Furor wants.....

but Congress-critters don't like their "vacations" messed with.

This is one "request" they won't follow.