Senate Passes DHS Funding Bill Excluding ICE/CBP by Voice Vote at 2:20 a.m.

In a highly unusual late-night session, the Senate passed a bill at 2:20 a.m. on March 28 to fund all of DHS except ICE and CBP, approved by voice vote. The bill represented Democrats' final offer before Congress left for a two-week recess. The House had already rejected this approach the previous day. Senate Democrats contended that ICE needed significant reforms before receiving new funding, citing the DHS shutdown they had triggered on February 14 following the fatal shooting of Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti by DHS law enforcement. Trump publicly stated: 'You can't have a bill that's not going to fund ICE.' With no deal reached, the shutdown became the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history.