WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced a plan Wednesday to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown that had caused major airport delays. Johnson and Thune implied that the Senate could attempt as early as Thursday to again pass a bill it had approved unanimously last week.

The plan would fund all of the Department of Homeland Security except U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Those two agencies already have separate funding.

"Fully reopen the Department, make sure all federal workers are paid, and specifically fund immigration enforcement and border security for the next three years so that those law-enforcement activities can continue uninhibited," Johnson said. Thune echoed the same statement: "Fully reopen the Department, make sure all federal workers are paid, and specifically fund immigration enforcement and border security for the next three years so that those law-enforcement activities can continue uninhibited."

House Republican leaders rejected the Senate bill on Friday. House Republican leaders would have to vote to pass the Senate plan through the House of Representatives.

Republicans plan to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection in a separate party-line budget reconciliation bill. A budget reconciliation bill can bypass a filibuster and be approved without any Democratic votes.

President Donald Trump called on Republicans to pass the party-line bill no later than June 1st. Trump declined to comment on the Senate bill last week.

The Department of Homeland Security has been shut down for more than a month. Employees of the Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other DHS agencies have worked for weeks without pay.

Trump signed an executive order last week to pay Transportation Security Administration employees. The legality and duration of that payment plan are unclear.

Both chambers of Congress are scheduled to be on recess until April 13.