Senate Republicans Open to Splitting DHS Funding: BGOV Budget

Senate GOP Open to Splitting DHS Funding

Senate Republicans are growing increasingly open to funding most agencies long-term with the exception of Homeland Security, opening a possible bipartisan path toward funding the government as the Jan. 30 deadline draws near.

That path however, might not avoid a partial shutdown.

A number of rank-and-file GOP senators are willing to accept Democrats’ demand to strip the Homeland Security funding bill from a massive six-bill spending package (H.R. 7148; BGOV Bill Summary) in the wake of the killing of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, by immigration enforcement agents in ...