The Department of Homeland Security is slated to experience a lapse in funding after Friday, as it seems less likely that a deal will be reached in time to avoid a shutdown.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters on Wednesday that the GOP caucus should “stay flexible” with their plans headed into the weekend, including for travel, if a deal is somehow reached in time.

“We’re not canceling trips, I guess. But I assume those would be individual decisions that individual senators will make about whether or not they’re going to continue to attend,” he said, according to Deseret News.

“As soon as we can strike a deal, we’ll vote on it. But until then, I don’t know if there’s any point in keeping people around here sitting around doing nothing,” he continued.

Meanwhile, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer posted to X that “Republicans have not gotten serious about negotiating a solution that reins in ICE and stops the violence” and said that the Democrats will not back a second continuing resolution to keep funding the department in the short term.

However, Thune spokesperson Ryan Wrasse said that “after Dems backed away from the bipartisan DHS bill, it took them *weeks* to produce new legislative text. Dems now giving the White House *days* to reciprocate. Who’s being unreasonable?”

Wrasse then pointed to Schumer’s stance against a second CR if a shutdown does occur: “Keep this line in mind if there’s a lapse in funding: ‘Democrats will not support a CR.’”

In the House, House Appropriations Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) proposed a funding deal where funding for ICE and Customs and Border Protection would be separated from the rest of it.

“If Republican leadership blocks this legislation from moving forward, they are responsible for any shuttered agencies, furloughed workers, missed paychecks, or reduced services,” DeLauro said, according to Punchbowl News.

However, the proposal is presumably dead on arrival, with Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-WY) posting to X, “Not happening” in direct response to the report.

ICE already received the bulk of the funding necessary to execute President Donald Trump’s immigration goals through the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” next year, but there are several other critical government entities that could be directly impacted by a DHS shutdown, including the U.S. Coast Guard, FEMA, and TSA.

“A funding lapse has severe and lasting challenges for our workforce, operational readiness, and long-term capabilities,” Coast Guard Admiral Thomas Allan said in the hearing, with him saying that other missions that are not a matter of “national security” or “the protection of life, property” would need to be stopped.

The White House made a counteroffer to the Democrats’ list of requests to make reforms to federal immigration enforcement, as the Democrats want to see an end to masking for agents and judicial warrants used, among other major changes. However, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Schumer released a statement that “the initial GOP response is both incomplete and insufficient.”

DHS funding was split from the rest of the government spending package as part of a deal to fund the vast majority of the federal government through the end of September. Due to the disagreements over immigration, a continuing resolution for DHS was approved until Feb. 13.