Senate again fails to pass homeland security funding as department shutdown nears one month – as it happened

This blog is now closed. Read the latest here The Senate again failed to pass a funding bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), amid a partial shutdown that has lasted almost a month. By a vote of 51-46, mainly along party lines, lawmakers in the upper chamber remain at an impasse over stronger guardrails on federal immigration enforcement. Only one Democrat, senator John Fetterman, broke with his party to vote for the appropriations bill that would fund DHS through September. This is the fourth time the Senate has failed to clear the 60-vote threshold needed to pass a DHS funding bill this year. This concludes our live coverage of US politics in the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments: The US Senate failed to pass a funding bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), amid a partial shutdown that has lasted almost a month. In a surprising twist, a White House event in honor of Women’s History Month ended with a medal being presented to… Donald Trump. The US temporarily suspended sanctions on the sale of Russian oil issuing a Treasury Department license to allow the sale of Russian crude oil and petroleum prod