At long last, the record-breaking 76-day partial government shutdown is coming to an end.

After legislation completely stalled in Congress for over a month, the House of Representatives has finally passed the Senate DHS funding bill.

It now heads to President Trump’s desk for final approval.

There’s just one little caveat: the bill funds all of the DHS except for ICE and Border Patrol.

Here are the details:

 

BREAKING: The House just passed the Senate DHS funding bill (funds all of DHS except ICE & CBP) via voice vote. There was no roll call vote requested. It now goes to President Trump’s desk for signature. Democrats had been demanding this for weeks.

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Coast Guard, FEMA, Secret Service, CISA etc funding all included, but again, ICE and CBP are not.

ICE and CBP will have to wait until Republicans can pass a second reconciliation bill without any Democratic votes in the Senate.

Although the bill does not fund ICE and CBP, it’s still a huge win for thousands of federal employees who have missed paychecks because of Democrats’ refusal to negotiate.

Next, Republicans aim to pass full funding of ICE and CBP using reconciliation.

The Hill has more on that:

The move largely ends the record-breaking DHS shutdown that was spurred by Democrats demanding immigration enforcement reforms, which has stretched for 75 days.

ICE and border enforcement, though, still remain unfunded. Republicans are seeking to fund those two through a special process known as reconciliation, which would allow Republicans to bypass a filibuster in the Senate.

The bipartisan Senate DHS bill would fund the Transportation Security Agency (TSA), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Coast Guard, Secret Service, and other critical agencies.

The “skinny” DHS bill, which Republicans will aim to pass alone without Democrats, will fund ICE and Border Patrol.

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But, for the time being, immigration enforcement has plenty of funding through the Big Beautiful Bill.

Watch what Speaker of the House Mike Johnson had to say after the bill’s passage:

President Trump is expected to sign the DHS funding bill shortly.

Fox News reported further:

The House of Representatives approved by voice vote a Senate-passed spending measure covering most of the department’s appropriations through September.

President Donald Trump is expected to swiftly sign the measure into law, restoring funding for the Secret Service, Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency and Transportation Security Administration, among other agencies.

The vote came after the Senate’s DHS funding bill had stalled in the lower chamber for more than a month as House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., declined to put the bill on the floor over objections to language he said defunded law enforcement. The speaker’s opposition reflected the views of many in the Republican conference, who viewed the bill as a dead letter when the Senate passed it unanimously in March.

Johnson changed course this week after the White House appeared to side with the Senate and urged swift passage of the upper chamber’s bill.

“We’re not defying the White House,” Johnson told reporters Wednesday. “Everybody understands what we’re doing. We’re all one team.”

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.
 

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