The Senate approved a bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, early Friday. The bill does not fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.
The Senate agreed on a deal that would fund most of the Department of Homeland Security but not the controversial Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency that Democrats are seeking to reform.
Republicans in the House of Representatives are planning on proposing a stopgap funding bill for all of the Department of Homeland Security, breaking with a Senate-passed deal that left out Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. NBC News' Melanie Zanona reports on the decision by Republican leadership.
The Senate has reached an agreement to re-open the Department of Homeland Security, but not fund Border Patrol and ICE, which Democrats blocked. Immigration enforcement has been at the center of the stalemate that caused a 42-day partial government shutdown that left TSA workers unpaid and extensive airport delays across the country. The bill now heads to…
House Democrats appear ready to back a bipartisan Senate deal to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) without funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or Border Patrol. That legislation passed unanimously in the upper chamber in the early hours of Friday morning, sending it to the House, where it could be considered…
