JUST IN: House Passes Short-Term DHS Funding Bill in Late Night Vote
The House of Representatives late Friday night passed a short-term DHS funding bill.
The House voted 213-203 to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security for 8 weeks.
Three Democrats joined the Republicans and voted to fund the DHS.
The short-term bill is likely dead on arrival in the Senate.
Senators have already left DC for a two-week Easter vacation.
The Hill reported:
House lawmakers on Friday passed a Republican bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in its entirety for eight weeks, after GOP leaders rejected a Senate-passed bill that would exclude money for immigration enforcement.
The partisan package was a nod to conservative immigration hawks, who hailed Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) for pushing it through. But it has no chance of passing the Senate and ensures that the weeks-long DHS shutdown will become the longest in history.
The tally was 213-203, with three centrist Democrats joining every voting Republican in supporting the bill.
The late-night vote came after a tumultuous day on Capitol Hill, sparked by Johnson’s rejection of a bipartisan Senate deal to fund most of DHS while withholding money for immigration enforcement operations under U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol.
The House voted late Friday night after rejecting the Senate-passed bill earlier in the day.
House Freedom Caucus leaders and Speaker Johnson rejected the Senate’s bill because it didn’t fully fund ICE agents.
The Senate very early Friday morning, after a marathon session, unanimously approved a voice-vote package to fund the Department of Homeland Security, except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and key parts of Customs and Border Protection.
Democrats flat-out refused to support full funding without gutting immigration raids and deportation operations.
Instead of fighting for the full funding, Thune and the Senate GOP folded in the dead of night, when no one was watching.
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