April 30 (UPI) -- Congress voted to reopen part of the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday after weeks of fighting over parts of the budget.
The department has been in a partial shutdown for 75 days.
The House approved the partial funding bill that the Senate passed over a month ago. President Donald Trump is expected to sign the legislation that will fully fund the Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration, Secret Service, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, along with other offices within the department that don't deal with immigration enforcement.
The bill's passage is a victory for Democrats who have fought to control the immigration enforcement tactics that led to the deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota earlier this year.
But congressional Republicans are planning to fund Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement in a package that would last through Trump's term via reconciliation, which would bypass any Democratic filibuster in the Senate. Trump has said he wants to sign that bill by June 1.
