JUST IN: DHS Funding Bill Fails in Senate Ahead of Friday Shutdown Deadline
The US Senate failed to pass a bill to temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security ahead of the Friday expiration of DHS funding.
Without DHS funding, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) can still function largely uninterrupted. Still, other agencies, including the Coast Guard and Transportation Security Administration (TSA), will face disruption.
The funding bill did not reach the 60-vote threshold to invoke cloture under the filibuster rule.
Only one Democrat, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman, voted in favor of invoking cloture.
Per the Hill:
Senate Democrats voted Thursday to block a motion to advance a House-passed bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, putting Washington on the brink of a partial government shutdown that will affect more than 260,000 federal employees.
The motion, which required 60 votes, failed to advance by a vote of 52-47.
Democrats blocked the legislation after rejecting an offer from the White House they said didn’t go far enough to reform immigration enforcement operations after the fatal shootings of two protesters in Minneapolis last month.
As a result, funding for key agencies such as the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Coast Guard will lapse on Saturday without further action from Congress.
This comes after a partial government shutdown was ended last week with a negotiated spending package for the Department of Homeland Security that funded the Department for only about two weeks.
Democrats are demanding reforms to ICE, including unmasking agents, forcing them to wear body cameras during immigration, and forcing them to obtain warrants from a judge as opposed to administrative warrants against criminal illegal aliens.
The Trump Administration has already caved to some of the Democrats’ demands by pulling ICE agents out of Minnesota and forcing agents to wear body-worn cameras.
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