Congress is one step closer to ending the Homeland Security shutdown after the Senate advanced a new, last-minute deal, but it came at the price of Republicans ceding ground, temporarily, to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
The Senate advanced a DHS shutdown deal without ICE or CBP funding, as Republicans plan to use reconciliation to secure immigration enforcement funding long-term.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Republicans have sent Democrats a revised proposal to end the ongoing shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security, which has snarled airport security lines around the country and added pressure on the US economy.
The Senate voted unanimously early Friday to reopen the Department of Homeland Security after a 40-day shutdown, but without funding for immigration enforcement and deportation operations.
Negotiations to end funding standoff sparked by Trump administration’s immigration crackdown fail to find a breakthroughSign up for the Breaking News US emailHello and welcome to the US politics live blog.There was no breakthrough in talk to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Wednesday as the shutdown extends to almost six weeks with no…
Lawmakers are looking for a way out of the Department of Homeland Security shutdown that has roiled air travel after a potential deal stalled. Follow live updates.
Senate Republicans gave their "last and final" offer on a compromise to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown on Thursday, but a test vote showed Democrats were not ready to accept the deal.
The Department of Homeland Security shutdown will reach its 40th day tomorrow, and it seems this partisan dispute over immigration enforcement cannot be resolved. It began when Democrats refused to fund the department unless the Trump administration instituted a series of reforms restricting ICE and Border Patrol agents from committing the sort of…
