After 42 days of infighting on Capitol Hill and growing security lines at airports, the Senate early Friday morning approved a bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, the first — yet significant — step in ending the shutdown at the sprawling agency.
Next stop is the House of Representatives, which could vote as early as Friday.
“Hopefully [the House will] be around and we can get at least a lot of the government opened up again, and then we’ll go from there,” Thune said heading to the Senate floor in the early hours of Friday morning. “But obviously we’ll still have some work ahead of us.”
The legislation — passed by unanimous consent — would fund all of DHS through the end of the fiscal year except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol operations at Customs and Border Protection. Republicans are looking to fund those agencies through the party-line budget reconciliation process, which could get messy down the road.
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