March 27 (UPI) -- The Senate unanimously voted to reopen the Department of Homeland Security for all except immigration enforcement and deportation.
The senators approved the package at 2:20 a.m. EDT Friday. President Donald Trump announced Thursday evening that he would tell new Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to "immediately pay our [Transportation Security Administration] Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation."
"Senate Democrats were clear: no blank check for a lawless ICE and Border Patrol," Democratic leader Senator Chuck Schumer, of New York, said after the bill passed.
The funding lapse has lasted 42 days, causing extreme delays at airports because TSA workers quit or called out sick.
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