Six Republicans and one independent joined all Democrats on Wednesday to advance a bill aimed at extending Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian immigrants, on Wednesday, April 15, 2026. The vote, adopted by 219 votes to 209, allows a discharge petition led by Representative Ayanna Pressley, a Democrat from Massachusetts, to move forward. The vote marks opposition to President Donald Trump over his immigration policy, forcing a vote to advance a measure restoring temporary protections for approximately 350,000 Haitians living in the United States. The bill proposes extending TPS for Haitians until April 2029, several U.S. media outlets reported.

“It is a decisive step forward in our fight for justice for immigrants and to provide our Haitian neighbors with the protections they deserve—and it is a testament to the strength of our broad, diverse, and bipartisan coalition,” Representative Pressley said in a statement. “I am grateful to my colleagues on both sides who supported our discharge petition, to my team carrying this work forward, and to our movement partners who helped us get here. The House must act urgently and pass this legislation without delay,” Pressley added, as quoted in a statement from her office.