WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Senate voted early Friday morning to advance a Department of Homeland Security funding proposal intended to end the partial shutdown that is preventing TSA workers from being paid. The Senate-approved funding proposal excludes funding for immigration operations.

For the Senate-approved legislation to become law and ensure TSA workers receive pay, the House of Representatives must pass it. Republican members of the House Freedom Caucus said they will not support the DHS funding bill in its current form.

A partial government shutdown began on February 14. The partial shutdown left TSA workers with two missing paychecks. Thousands of TSA workers have called out because they did not receive pay. Hundreds of TSA workers have quit.

The partial shutdown resulted in hours-long lines at airports across the country. Congress was preparing to depart on a scheduled recess on Friday evening.

House Freedom Caucus members said they want to add ICE and Border Patrol funding back into the spending package. House Republicans considered a 60-day stopgap funding measure. "Dead on arrival in the Senate, and Republicans know it," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said about the proposed 60-day stopgap funding measure.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the Secretary of Homeland Security to use funds with a reasonable nexus to TSA operations to provide TSA employees with compensation and benefits that would have accrued if not for the DHS shutdown. "Current circumstances constitute an emergency situation" that compromises the country's security, Trump said in the executive order.