Republican leaders agree to advance funding deal to end DHS shutdown

Measure that would fund homeland security but exclude money for ICE could conclude lengthy funding lapse An end to the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) may be in sight, after Congress’s Republican leaders on Wednesday agreed to advance legislation that would fund the majority of the agency’s operations, with the exception of those involved in immigration enforcement. The pact may conclude the longest such funding lapse in US history, which last month caused security