US President Donald Trump has signed bipartisan legislation to fund much of the Department of Homeland Security, ending the longest agency shutdown.
The decision came on Thursday after the US House passed the bill to fund DHS agencies, including the Secret Service and Transportation Security Administration, in a move to end the partial shutdown that has gripped their operations for nearly 11 weeks.
DHS has been without routine funds since February 14, causing hardship for workers, though much of Trump’s immigration agenda, which is central to the dispute, is being funded separately.
The package doesn’t include funds for immigration enforcement operations.
The package had languished in the House, despite being approved without opposition last month in the Senate, as Republicans revolted, forcing a separate path for the immigration funds.
Once that was launched this week, it cleared the way to fund the rest of homeland security, whose employees risked losing paychecks in May.
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