House set to break with Trump, vote against ending deportation protections for Haitians

Politics House set to break with Trump, voting against ending deportation protections for Haitians By Caitlin Yilek Caitlin Yilek Politics Reporter Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation. Read Full Bio Caitlin Yilek April 16, 2026 / 7:06 AM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google Washington — The House is poised to deliver rare pushback on President Trump's immigration policies in a vote Thursday on a bill to stop the administration from ending temporary deportation protections for Haitian nationals living in the U.S. Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts spearheaded the effort to force a vote through a procedural tool known as a discharge petition. The tool — which has seen increasing success under the fractured House Republican majority — hit the 218-signature threshold it needed to bypass GOP leadership and bring the measure to the floor in late March. Four Republicans — Reps. Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Mike Lawler of New York and Don Bacon of Nebraska — joined all Democrats in backing the discharge petition. In a procedural vote Wednesday, it also gained the support of Reps. Nicole Malliotakis of New York, Carlos Gimenez of Florida and Kevin Kiley of California, allowing the bill to proceed to the House floor. The underlying bill, introduced last year by Democratic Rep. Laura Gillen of New York, would require the Department of Homeland Security to extend temporary protected status, or TPS, for Haitians until 2029. The bill was cosponsored by Lawler. The bill mirrors one introduced by Secretary of State Marco Rubio in 2019, when he was a Florida senator. The vote comes as the Supreme Court is set to weigh in on the legal battle over the Trump administr...