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  • US Senate votes to fund Homeland Security to end airports chaos - but ICE excluded

    03/27/2026 10:29:52 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 37 replies
    BBC News ^ | 03/27/2026 | Freya Scott-Turner
    The US Senate has voted to end a partial 40-day government shutdown, approving funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) - but with immigration enforcement excluded. The almost six-week funding lapse has had a knock-on effect on air travel in the US. Airport security workers' salaries are paid by the DHS, and hundreds have quit since the shutdown began. Democrats had refused to agree a funding deal without reforms to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency, but the Senate reached unanimous agreement in the early hours of Friday morning after stripping ICE and parts of border protection...