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House Passes DHS Funding, Clears Hurdle to Ending Shutdown

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., has succeeded in rallying his slim majority around controversial measures involving surveillance, immigration enforcement funding, and agricultural policy, successfully led passage of the bills on Thursday.

The House voted by voice Thursday to pass the Senate’s measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security, sending the bill to President Donald Trump’s desk to end a 75-shutdown. The House will recess after Thursday for a week.

On Wednesday night, after days of struggling to come to a deal, the House passed a resolution unlocking the process of budget reconciliation, allowing Republicans to fund immigration enforcement without needing Democrat votes in the Senate.

In order to do so, Republican leadership had to overcome some rank-and-file members’ complaints about a piecemeal approach to funding the Department of Homeland Security, in which Republicans would fund the agency’s non-immigration responsibilities in a separate bipartisan bill.

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, an opponent of the........

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