- Senate Republicans advanced a $70 billion budget plan to fund immigration enforcement agencies using reconciliation.
- The Homeland Security Department has been partially shut down for weeks amid legislative gridlock.
- Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski and Rand Paul joined Democrat
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