US House passes bill funding much of DHS, ending agency’s longest shutdown

Bipartisan measure includes funding for Secret Service and TSA, but excludes immigration enforcement operations Partial government shutdown ends after Congress votes to fund DHS The US House of Representatives has voted to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security – excluding immigration enforcement operations – and end the longest government agency shutdown in history. The deal struck on Thursday aims to draw a line under a 75-day impasse that had threatened airport chaos and exposed fre