President Donald Trump has signed a bill to restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security, ending a record-setting 75-day lapse in funding for the critical agency tasked with protecting U.S. soil.
Trump signed the bill Thursday after the House of Representatives reached a bipartisan agreement to fund DHS. The House approved the Senate-passed spending measure by voice vote, covering most of the department’s appropriations through September.
Notably, however, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will remain unfunded under the current legislation.
Perhaps no one is as pleased as Markwayne Mullin, our nation’s new DHS Secretary, who was sworn in on March 24th to lead a department without a fully-funded budget. Mullin on Thursday afternoon: After 76 days, the longest government shutdown in history
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