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President Donald Trump has signed a bill funding most of the Department of Homeland Security, ending a 76-day shutdown of the agency.

Some shit you should know before you dig in: If you’re unaware, funding for most of DHS ran out on Feb 14 after months of fighting between Democrats and the White House over Trump’s immigration crackdown. Democrats were demanding new restrictions on immigration enforcement agents, including a ban on masks during operations and a warrant requirement for certain arrests. Republicans pushed back, arguing those constraints would handcuff agents and give criminals an edge during enforcement. The Senate cut a bipartisan deal on April 1 covering everything inside DHS except ICE and parts of Customs and Border Protection, and passed it twice in late March and early April with no objections. House Speaker Mike Johnson then kept the bill off the floor for weeks while some of his party refused to vote for anything that didn’t include ICE and Border Patrol money. Pressure to act ramped up after Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin also warned that paychecks would stop in early May if the bill didn’t pass.

What’s going on now: The House cleared the Senate bill by voice vote Thursday afternoon, and nobody asked for a recorded vote. The whole thing went down within an hour of Republican leadership announcing it would come to the floor. Trump signed the bill the same day. The legislation funds TSA, FEMA, the Coast Guard, the Secret Service, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency through Sept 30.

ICE and parts of Customs and Border Protection are still unfunded, but Republicans are working on a separate $70 billion package to fund those agencies for the rest of Trump’s term using budget reconciliation, a process that lets them bypass Democrats in the Senate.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who spent weeks telling House Republicans to take the Senate bill as written, didn’t say much when asked about the vote. “I’m glad they passed it,” Thune said. Asked about the House passing it without a recorded vote, Thune smiled before pausing and saying, “Yeah. I probably shouldn’t,” then walked back into his office.

Democrats criticized Republicans for dragging the fight out. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote on X that it was “Over a month of unnecessary pain for millions of Americans brought to you by the House GOP.” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said House Republicans “kept the Department of Homeland Security shut down because of their toxic demand to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on ICE brutality.”