The Senate early on Friday agreed to fund the vast majority of the Department of Homeland Security, bringing an end to the partial government shutdown that left most of its agencies without funding for more than a month.
Negotiators passed a bill to fund DHS through the end of the fiscal year after days of intense back-and-forth talks. Those discussions took on a new sense of urgency as hours-long security lines became a common occurrence at airports across the country. The bill will still need to pass the House and be signed into law.
The package does not fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement — the most hotly contested portion of the spending measure — and only funds a part of Customs and Border Protection. It also does not include any of the reforms to ICE that Democrats have sought dating back to January. Spurred by the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis at the hands of immigration agents, Democrats said they would not vote for DHS funding without significant changes at the agency.