Congress on Thursday passed legislation to fund Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agencies that don’t deal with immigration, ending a 76-day shutdown.The legislation funds the Coast Guard, TSA, Secret Service, FEMA, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and other agencies, Politico reported. President Donald Trump is expected to sign it.
The bill did not include funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or the Border Patrol. Republicans are planning a reconciliation package to separately approve funding for those agencies for the rest of Trump’s term.
Using reconciliation would allow the Senate to bypass its 60-vote filibuster threshold and pass the funding without Democratic support.
The One Big, Beautiful Bill included funding for ICE and CBP, meaning the shutdown generally did not affect those agencies. Democrats had sought to extract policy concessions from the administration, but ultimately did not secure their demands.
Ben Whedon is the Chief Political Correspondent at Just the News. Follow him on X.
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