US senators have voted to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ending the 76-day partial government shutdown over the agency’s immigration enforcement efforts.
Members of the US House of Representatives approved a Senate-passed bill by voice vote, restoring funding to much of DHS and ending the agency’s longest closure in history.
Since February 14, the federal agency has been operating without normal finances, resulting in massive disruptions and hours-long wait times at airports around the United States. President Donald Trump supports the plan, which reopens DHS but does not provide fresh funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or the US Border Patrol.
The bill now goes to the president, who is likely to sign it quickly. The House’s thin Republican majority has regularly stagnated under Speaker Mike Johnson, with his own party embroiled in internal squabbles over a variety of urgent problems, including homeland security funding. The bipartisan package was unanimously adopted by the Senate a month ago, but it has stalled in the House.
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