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After 75 Days, the DHS Shutdown Is Set to End
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After 75 Days, the DHS Shutdown Is Set to End

TIME·Chantelle Lee·about 1 month ago
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The House passed a Senate-approved appropriations bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday, teeing up an end to the longest government shutdown in American history. The bill will fund much of DHS through Sept. 30, including the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. But the legislation doesn’t include funding for immigration enforcement agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and parts of Border Patrol. President Donald Trump is expected to sign the bill to officially end the shutdown, which began on Feb. 14 amid a bitter standoff between Democrats and Republicans over immigration enforcement that was spurred by federal officers fatally shooting two American citizens in Minneapolis at the start of the year. Democratic lawmakers refused to pass a funding bill for DHS unless it included new guardrails on federal immigration agents.…

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