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Senate Democrats block DHS funding bill as department shutdown looms<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n

Senate Democrats blocked a funding bill to keep the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) open on Thursday. The legislation failed to clear the 60 vote threshold needed, and fell almost entirely along party lines in a 52-47 vote<\/strong>. Senator John Fetterman<\/strong> was the only Democratic lawmaker who voted for the bill.<\/p>\n

This means that a department shutdown is all but inevitable, when the stopgap measure expires on Friday.<\/p>\n

A reminder that the DHS appropriations bill that failed in the upper chamber today was the same legislation that Senate Democrats rejected just weeks ago, in favor of a short term measure to negotiate guardrails on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in the wake of surge of agents in Minnesota and the fatal shooting of two US citizens in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n