The Senate voted early Friday morning to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security, taking a step to reopen large parts of an agency that has been partially shut down for more than a month. The vote came hours after President Donald Trump said that he was ordering officials to pay Transportation Security Administration officers even though Congress had not appropriated funds,

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters on Thursday that he was hopeful about ending the partial government shutdown after the GOP made "their last and final offer" to Democrats. CBS News' Shawna Mizelle and Taurean Small have the latest on TSA wait times and lawmaker negotiations.

Congress has struggled to agree to a funding deal as airport security staff faced another missed paycheck on Friday.

Fox News chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., rejecting a Senate DHS spending bill and President Donald Trump signing an executive order to pay TSA agents ‘America Reports.

President Donald Trump’s move to pay airport security agents directly eased the sharpest pain point for lawmakers fighting over immigration enforcement, effectively killing momentum in Congress toward a funding deal.

Republicans and Democrats in the Senate agreed to fund most of the DHS early Friday, with the measure now passing to the House

The Senate passes a bill to fund DHS without ICE reforms after days of airport chaos. Fox News' Chad Pergram reports on what's next.

President Donald Trump directed his newly installed Department of Homeland Security chief to swiftly pay Transportation Security Administration agents in a bid to reduce long lines at airports, as talks to fund the department collapsed on Capitol Hill.