Republicans invoked the war in Iran and the prospect of retaliatory terrorist attacks as they made another unsuccessful effort Thursday to pass a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security.
Democrats are insisting on changes to immigration enforcement operations as part of the measure and blocked it from getting the 60 votes necessary to advance in the Senate. While the House will also take up the bill on Thursday, the vote will be more about putting lawmakers on the record about where they stand. In the end, a bipartisan compromise will have to be reached to end a DHS shutdown that began Feb. 14.
The funding bill first passed the House back in January, but it has gone nowhere in the Senate as Democrats seek new restraints on immigration enforcement tactics following the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by Border Patrol officers in Minneapolis.
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