GOP Plans Three-Year DHS Funding Without Democrats, Senator Says

Senate Republicans plan to fund the Department of Homeland Security for three years using a party-line budget process in an effort to sidestep Democratic opposition as the shutdown drags on, a key GOP senator said Monday.

“We’re working on reconciliation now. We’re taking this off the table,” Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) told reporters. “That’s enough of this with the Democrats. We’re going to fund DHS for the next three years.”

The Senate is currently scheduled to be in recess for the next two weeks. The two chambers and parties remain deadlocked over DHS funding in what has now become the ...