
The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday approved along party lines a $44.3 billion discretionary spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in FY ’18, about $200 million more than the Trump administration requested and $1.9 billion higher than the FY ’17 appropriations.The vote was 30 to 22 in favor of the motion to send the spending bill to the House floor.The committee rejected by a vote 22 to 30 an amendment by Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.) that would…