
The House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee on Tuesday morning approved by voice vote along party lines a $50.7 billion spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security in fiscal year 2021, the dividing line between Democrats and Republicans being a zeroing of funding for a border wall and a sharp reduction in funding for immigration enforcement. The same divisions have plagued previous DHS spending bills during the presidency of Trump, who campaigned in 2016 on a promise to build a…