Senate advances DHS funding bill, tees up House vote to end shutdown as TSA lines stretch

The Senate early Friday morning advanced a bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security , in a move to end the partial government shutdown that has disrupted air travel across the U.S. After weeks of Republicans fighting Democrats on their calls to remove funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement from any potential deal, the bill does exactly that. It would fund all of DHS except for ICE and parts of Customs and Border Protection, though it does not include the changes to ICE's immigration enforcement practices that Democrats had demanded. It now moves to the House for final approval. A vote could be held as soon as Friday as lawmakers seek to leave Washington for a scheduled recess. "This could've been accomplished weeks ago if Republicans hadn't stood in the way," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer , D-N.Y., said from the Senate floor Friday. "Democrats held firm in our opposition that Donald Trump 's rogue and deadly militia should not get more funding without serious reforms, and we will continue to fight for those reforms." Read more CNBC politics coverage Trump says Iranian negotiators ‘better get serious soon, before it is too late’ Reps Ro Khanna and Tim Burchett to push fraud probe across all 50 states Prediction market bets on sports, election, war would be verboten under new legislation The Senate vote is an encouraging step toward ending the shutdown, which resulted in missed paychecks for Transportation Security Administration agents and long lines at airports. The deal comes just in time for lawmakers to leave town for a pre-planned two-week recess beginning at the end of this week. Lawmakers scrambled much of the week to strike a deal before the recess, but as talks broke down late Thursday, Trump intervened and announced via Truth Social that he would pay TSA agents via executive order. "Because the Democrats have recklessly created a true National Crisis, I am using my authorities under the Law to protect our Great Country, as I ...