Bill passes by 213 to 203 votes in move prolonging weeks-long budget standoff that has disrupted travel
US House Republicans rejected a bipartisan Senate deal to temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security and instead passed their own funding measure late Friday, extending a weeks-long budget standoff that has disrupted travel.
The stopgap bill, which proposes funding the DHS in full for eight weeks, passed by 213 to 203 votes after Republicans in the lower chamber refused to take up a Senate-passed deal that excluded money for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol.
It essentially prolongs a standoff that has forced thousands of airport security staff to work without pay, even as the White House said Donald Trump ordered that the personnel finally be compensated.
In a statement, the Senate Democratic leader, Chuck Schumer, said a funding measure “that locks in the status quo is dead on arrival in the Senate, and Republicans know it”.
