After 42 days of airports in chaos, paycheques stopped and two US citizens killed by federal immigration agents, the Senate voted unanimously in the early hours of Friday to fund the Transportation Security Administration, FEMA and the Coast Guard but left ICE and parts of Customs and Border Protection out in the cold.
America's airports had been fracturing for six weeks, and it took a presidential order, a marathon Senate session and the threat of recess to finally crack open a deal that nobody on either side is calling a victory.
