After 76 Days, GOP House Votes to End Democrat Government Shutdown — DHS NOW FUNDED

President Donald Trump has signed a bill to restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security, ending a record-setting 75-day lapse in funding for the critical agency tasked with protecting U.S. soil.

Trump signed the bill Thursday after the House of Representatives reached a bipartisan agreement to fund DHS. The House approved the Senate-passed spending measure by voice vote, covering most of the department’s appropriations through September.

Notably, however, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will remain unfunded under the current legislation.

Mullin: Perhaps no one is as pleased as Markwayne Mullin, our nation’s new DHS Secretary, who was sworn in on March 24th to lead a department without a fully-funded budget. Mullin on Thursday afternoon: After 76 days, the longest government shutdown in history is over. @DHSgov is back open, @ICEgov and @CBP will be funded through reconciliation (with NO Democrat votes) so liberals can’t play games with federal law enforcement funding. To be clear, this Democrat shutdown NEVER should have happened.

Fox News: The DHS secretary Mentioned funding ICE and CBP (Customs and Border Patrol) through reconciliation. A first hurdle was passed on that as well on Thursday: House Republicans just cleared a key first hurdle to move ICE and Border Patrol funding forward without Democratic votes. The chamber passed a budget framework 215-211 along party lines, setting up the reconciliation process for a later bill that aims to provide about $70 billion for the agencies.

RedState: Although these maneuvers won’t solve everything immediately, they would stave off a looming issue: the White House had warned that the government would not be able to pay hundreds of thousands of federal employees beginning in May as funds were drying up due to the partial shutdown.

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 Pamela Geller

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