WASHINGTON — House Republicans won’t vote on a Senate-approved deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security, meaning the weekslong partial shutdown of the agency will drag on.

Instead, they will vote on a DHS funding bill of their own, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told reporters Friday.

“The Senate Democrats have foisted upon this appropriations process their radical crazy agenda,” Johnson claimed.

The speaker said he spoke to President Donald Trump about punting on the Senate-passed bill and has his support.

The Senate approved funding for DHS and its subagencies, with the exception of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol, in the early hours of Friday morning.

The Senate vote followed Trump’s announcement Thursday that he would order Transportation Security Administration officers to be paid regardless of what happened in Congress.

TSA officers have been told to expect their paychecks next week after the president signed an executive order.

Workers received a text message from the agency Friday afternoon saying they would be paid “at the direction of the president,” with backpay covering two pay periods and a partial third. “Employees should expect most of their backpay in their direct deposit starting Monday, March 30,” the text read.

Officers were told to report to work on their next scheduled day.

“We recognize the challenges you’ve faced and thank you for your commitment, patience and dedication to our work and mission of keeping the traveling public safe,” the agency added.

But Cameron Cochems, a union leader and TSA officer in Boise, Idaho, said many workers aren’t convinced the money will come through, citing legal questions about the White House trying to circumvent Congress to pay employees.

“I’ll believe it when I see it,” Cochems said.

The fact that Trump has ordered the government to pay TSA officers ― as he did for members of the military during the previous government shutdown ― will reduce pressure on lawmakers to reach a deal for the rest of DHS, since long lines at airport security checkpoints should begin to get better as officers get paid and fewer call out sick to work other jobs or sell blood plasma.

Democrats initially refused to support DHS funding last month after immigration agents killed two American citizens during an aggressive crackdown in Minnesota. Democrats demanded reforms to ICE and CBP, but none were included in the Senate bill.

Senate Democrats are opposed to Johnson’s plan and will not allow it to pass in either a pro forma Senate session or in the unlikely scenario that senators return to Washington from their previously scheduled two-week recess.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) called it “dead on arrival.”

“We’ve been clear from day one: Democrats will fund critical Homeland Security functions—but we will not give a blank check to Trump’s lawless and deadly immigration militia without reforms,” he said in a statement.

Senate Republicans, meanwhile, indicated they had no plans to bring the Senate back into session, putting the onus on their House counterparts to swallow the DHS funding bill or else prolong the shutdown for at least another two weeks.

“Given the staunch opposition from Senate Democrats, the clearest path to ending this harmful shutdown is for the House to adopt what the Senate just overwhelmingly approved,” a Senate GOP aide said.

When a reporter pointed out how Johnson’s refusal to allow a House vote on the Senate plan would prolong the shutdown, he insisted it wouldn’t.

“This is not a political blame game,” said the speaker. “This is one party doing the job and getting the government funded and another that’s using people as pawns.”

“What the hell are you guys doing?”

During a House Rules Committee hearing later Friday, which is the panel that tees up votes on the House floor, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) tore into Republicans for unnecessarily dragging out the DHS shutdown.

“What the hell are you guys doing?” asked McGovern, who is the top Democrat on the committee.

He said they all know the Senate’s bill “could pass today with a large majority,” if Johnson gave it a floor vote. He said Trump was even reportedly ready to sign the Senate’s bill.

“Instead of doing the responsible thing — the obvious thing — the speaker is cowardly bowing to a handful of extremist wackos in the Republican conference,” fumed McGovern. “They only care about writing another blank check for ICE … or getting a shout-out on some batshit crazy right-wing podcast.”

It’s not clear when the House will vote on the DHS bill. Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), who chairs the rules committee, declined to give details on timing when McGovern asked.

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