
The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday approved along party lines a $52.8 billion spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security that will have to be reconciled with an eventual Senate appropriations bill for the department. The 33 to 24 vote was expected as Democrats unanimously supported the measure and Republicans, who oppose funding cuts to border security, primarily for a border wall system, and immigration enforcement, were united in opposition. Most of the funding bill has broad bipartisan support…