The House voted 213-203 late Friday to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security for six weeks, through May 22. The bill includes Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection — the agencies the Senate stripped from its own bill hours earlier.
President Trump backed the House measure. Nearly every House Democrat voted no.
The bill now goes to the Senate, which has rejected full DHS funding six times since the shutdown began February 14. Senate Democrats have refused to fund ICE and CBP without reforms to immigration enforcement practices following the January killings of two U.S. citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis.
If the Senate rejects the House bill, the shutdown enters its seventh week with no resolution in sight.
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