What time is Senate vote today on shutdown 2026? Updates, news

Now 37 days into the government shutdown 2026 today, Monday, March 23, a Senate vote to end the DHS shutdown and reopen the government amid a DHS funding lapse is unlikely as hours-long TSA wait times tick up and Trump deploys ICE to airports to help with long lines.
The Senate returns this afternoon as we climb closer to the longest government shutdown in history, partial shutdowns included. A bitter bipartisan battle has raged for weeks on Capitol Hill in Washington DC over Democrats’ demands to rein in ICE following the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good by federal agents in Minnesota in January.
The latest shutdown news today comes after a fatal airplane crash at LaGuardia Airport, which closed but has since reopened, and an expected Senate vote today to confirm Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a Republican from Oklahoma, as the new DHS secretary, following the firing of Kristi Noem in early March.
The partial government shutdown began Feb. 14 after the Senate failed to approve funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Since then, the Senate has failed four times to reach the 60 votes needed to end the shutdown. Sen. John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, has been the lone