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The House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday approved a $64.8 billion funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, with Republicans in favor and Democrats opposed.
The 33 to 26 party-line vote sends the fiscal year 2025 spending measure to the full House. Senate appropriators have yet to schedule their markups of any appropriations bills.
Some of the Democrats’ problems with the House Appropriations Committee’s version of the DHS bill include a proposed $600 million for additional physical barriers along the southern U.S. border, cutting more than $2 billion from the operations account for the U.S. Border Patrol, and eliminating a program that provides humanitarian support to non-federal entities to assist illegal migrants.