In the early hours of Friday morning — with wraparound lines and cancelled flights at airports thanks to TSA officers not getting paid — the Senate passed a bill to fund its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, for the rest of the fiscal year. This came after a 41-days-and-counting shutdown.
The legislation would not fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and would not fund border patrol, given that Republicans refused to meet Democrats even halfway after an ICE officer shot and killed Renee Good and Customs and Border Protection shot and killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis two months ago.
