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Senate Passes Border Funding Megabill

The Senate passed a major immigration enforcement funding bill early Friday morning, marking a major step forward for the effort to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), as well as Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for the rest of President Donald Trump’s term.

The chamber voted 52-47 to pass the $70 billion party-line budget bill, which Republicans refer to as the “Secure America Act.”

All Republicans except for Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted in favor of the bill and all Democrats except for Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, who was absent to participate in a gubernatorial primary debate in his home state, voted against it.

Friday morning’s result gets Congress closer to turning the page on a months-long debate over immigration enforcement funding.

For months, Democrats have refused to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration agencies without Republicans agreeing to codify restraints on them.

Congressional Republicans eventually decided on a split approach to funding DHS—relying on Democrat votes to fund the non-immigration functions of the agency, while using the partisan process of budget reconciliation to inject funding into immigration........

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