A spending package that would fund the vast majority of the federal government cleared a key procedural hurdle Tuesday, setting up a vote on final passage for later in the day.
The measure, which also includes a funding patch for the Department of Homeland Security through Feb. 13, would end the partial government shutdown that began Saturday.
Republicans stayed mostly united on the 217-215 test vote to advance the package that would fund the Pentagon and the departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and Education through Sept. 30.
The short-term DHS funding is intended to give lawmakers time to negotiate reforms to how immigration officers execute the Trump administration’s enforcement crackdown.
