Congress Votes to Keep DHS Funded for Another Week

Both the House and Senate voted tonight on a stop-gap measure to continue Homeland Security funding for another week, thereby staving off an impeding shutdown that had Washington scrambling this week.

The Senate passed it with a voice vote, while well over the two-thirds needed in the House voted tonight to pass the extension.

The shutdown showdown started over Republican attempts to pass a DHS funding bill that would defund President Obama‘s executive action on immigration. Democrats, meanwhile, initially objected to stop-gap measures that didn’t cover funding for the rest of the fiscal year.

Earlier in the day, the House rejected a bill that would have kept the department running for another three weeks, with an overwhelming number of Democrats and some Republicans voting against it.

The Senate later passed a one-week stop-gap measure, and the House Democrats ended up rallying around that, with Nancy Pelosi sending out a letter to members asking them to get behind the measure.

But again, it’s only a week-long extension, so we’ll be back to this next Friday…

[image via Tupungato/Shutterstock]

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