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Republicans Cave and End DHS Shutdown—Without Funding ICE (newrepublic.com)
submitted 6 hours ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
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Republicans in Congress voted to fund the Department of Homeland Security Thursday, effectively ending the 76-day shutdown of the department.

The bill, passed by a voice vote in the House, is a win for Democrats, as it still includes no money for ICE or Border Patrol, and is now headed to President Trump’s desk to be signed into law. House Speaker Mike Johnson reportedly decided to finally support the bill after a private meeting with his fellow Republican leaders earlier in the day, where they agreed that the situation couldn’t continue.

The GOP will still try to fund ICE through the reconciliation process, which takes much longer but only requires a simple majority in both chambers of Congress.

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[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 2 points 29 minutes ago

Finally, among all the terrible and stupid news, a little bit of good news. For now.

[–] FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 hour ago

Good. Now do it with that stupid fucking war.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 hour ago

... Is Hell frozen over?

The... Dems in Congress... actually did something?

[–] cybermass@lemmy.ca 55 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Democrats will hopefully learn from this that they should hold their ground in the future instead of rolling belly up at the first sight of inconvenience

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 3 hours ago

They shouldn't have upped DHS money.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 19 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I think some will, but Schumer definitely won’t

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

Hopefully voters take note and kick his ass to the curb.

[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 14 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What, backbone?

[–] damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

No, pressure.

[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

It's a trick, get an axe

It's a trick, get an axe