Here We Go Again: Senate Dems Torpedo DHS Funding Bill, High Tail It Out of D.C. As Shutdown Looms
Teri Christoph
Right on the heels of the Thursday announcement by White House Border Czar Tom Homan that Operation Metro Surge would be winding down and federal immigration enforcement in the Twin Cities would soon return to normal levels, Senate Democrats blocked a motion to advance a House-approved bill that would have funded the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for the next year.
And, now, the Senate has adjourned for a week-long recess and its members are jetting out of Washington, D.C., all but assuring that another government shutdown is on the way.
The motion required 60 votes to advance, but it failed by a vote of 52-47. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) was the only Democrat to cross the aisle and join the Republican effort to get a DHS funding bill on the president's desk before its current funding runs out at midnight Friday.
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