President Donald Trump signed a bill funding most of the Department of Homeland Security within hours of it clearing the House on Thursday, effectively ending an 11-week partial shutdown.
The bill, which the House cleared on a voice vote, funds all of the vast department — covering the Secret Service, Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency and more — with the exception of immigration enforcement agencies. Republicans plan to fund those agencies through a separate filibuster-proof reconciliation bill over Democratic opposition in the coming weeks.
The decision by House leadership to push the bill through under suspension of the rules — after weeks of resistance and without a roll call vote — brought a surprisingly speedy conclusion to the longest partial shutdown in history.
