Senate again fails to pass DHS funding bill as shutdown nears a month
The Senate again failed to pass a funding bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), amid a partial shutdown that has lasted almost a month.
By a vote of 51-46, mainly along party lines, lawmakers in the upper chamber remain at an impasse over stronger guardrails on federal immigration enforcement.
Only one Democrat, senator John Fetterman, broke with his party to vote for the appropriations bill that would fund DHS through September.
This is the fourth time the Senate has failed to clear the 60-vote threshold needed to pass a DHS funding bill this year.
- 5h agoIran begins laying mines in strait of Hormuz, surprising Trump administration - reports
- 5h agoTrump posts old photo of himself in uniform as military academy high school student
- 6h agoUS treasury issues new license to permit more Russian oil sales despite sanctions
- 7h agoSenators Elizabeth Warren and Chris Van Hollen call for Pete Hegseth to be fired over killing of Iranian schoolgirls
- 8h agoFBI says Michigan synagogue attack being investigated as 'a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community'
- 9h agoTrump celebrates Trump at Women's History Month event
- 9h agoOlympic athlete gives medal to Trump at Women's History Month event
- 10h agoTrump uses Women’s History Month event to promote his tax and spending law
- 10h agoTrump says he has been fully briefed on synagogue attack in Michigan
- 11h agoHouse Democrats also push Hegseth for answers on Iran school bombing and use of AI in ongoing war
- 11h agoUS Navy could escort vessels in Strait of Hormuz with international coalition, Bessent says
- 12h agoHere's a recap of the day so far
- 12h agoSenate again fails to pass DHS funding bill as shutdown nears a month
- 13h agoFBI responding to reports of active shooter at Michigan synagogue
- 14h agoSenate overwhelmingly passes landmark housing bill
- 14h agoEswatini receives four more third-country deportees from US, government says
- 15h agoClyburn says he will run for re-election at 85, poised to be one of the oldest members of Congress
- 15h agoSenate Democrats send letter to Hegseth for more information on bombing of Iran girls' school
- 16h agoPentagon tells lawmakers that war cost over $11.3bn in the first week - reports
- 16h ago'We make a lot of money': Trump spins spiking oil prices as benefit for US
- 18h agoSenate to vote on DHS funding bill as department shutdown continues
- 18h agoUS cannot escort ships through strait of Hormuz now, maybe by month’s end, says energy secretary
- 19h agoDemocrats press for answers over potential conflict of interest between Bondi and her lawyer brother
- 19h agoRepublicans pile pressure on Thune to alter rules for Trump's voter ID bill
Iran begins laying mines in strait of Hormuz, surprising Trump administration - reports
Trump posts old photo of himself in uniform as military academy high school student
US treasury issues new license to permit more Russian oil sales despite sanctions
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chris Van Hollen call for Pete Hegseth to be fired over killing of Iranian schoolgirls
FBI says Michigan synagogue attack being investigated as 'a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community'
Trump celebrates Trump at Women's History Month event
Olympic athlete gives medal to Trump at Women's History Month event
Trump uses Women’s History Month event to promote his tax and spending law
Trump says he has been fully briefed on synagogue attack in Michigan
House Democrats also push Hegseth for answers on Iran school bombing and use of AI in ongoing war
US Navy could escort vessels in Strait of Hormuz with international coalition, Bessent says
Here's a recap of the day so far
FBI responding to reports of active shooter at Michigan synagogue
Senate overwhelmingly passes landmark housing bill
Eswatini receives four more third-country deportees from US, government says
Clyburn says he will run for re-election at 85, poised to be one of the oldest members of Congress
Senate Democrats send letter to Hegseth for more information on bombing of Iran girls' school
Pentagon tells lawmakers that war cost over $11.3bn in the first week - reports
'We make a lot of money': Trump spins spiking oil prices as benefit for US
Senate to vote on DHS funding bill as department shutdown continues
US cannot escort ships through strait of Hormuz now, maybe by month’s end, says energy secretary
Democrats press for answers over potential conflict of interest between Bondi and her lawyer brother
Republicans pile pressure on Thune to alter rules for Trump's voter ID bill
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This concludes our live coverage of US politics in the second Trump administration for the day. Here are the latest developments:
- The US Senate failed to pass a funding bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), amid a partial shutdown that has lasted almost a month.
- In a surprising twist, a White House event in honor of Women’s History Month ended with a medal being presented to… Donald Trump.
- The US temporarily suspended sanctions on the sale of Russian oil issuing a Treasury Department license to allow the sale of Russian crude oil and petroleum products loaded on vessels through April 11. “Looks like we fought Iran and Russia won,” Brian Schatz, a Democratic senator from Hawaii observed.
- Two Democratic senators, Elizabeth Warren and Chris Van Hollen, called for the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, “to be fired immediately” over the killing of dozens of seven to 12-year-old Iranian schoolgirls in a missile attack on the first day of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
- The suspect who killed one person and injured two others at Old Dominion University was identified by authorities as Mohamed Jalloh, a former member of the army national guard who pleaded guilty in 2016 to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State.
- The FBI said it is investigating the ramming of a car into a Michigan synagogue as “a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community”.
In a surprising twist, a White House event in honor of Women’s History Month ended with a medal being presented to… Donald Trump.
The US temporarily suspended sanctions on the sale of Russian oil issuing a Treasury Department license to allow the sale of Russian crude oil and petroleum products loaded on vessels through April 11. “Looks like we fought Iran and Russia won,” Brian Schatz, a Democratic senator from Hawaii observed.
Two Democratic senators, Elizabeth Warren and Chris Van Hollen, called for the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, “to be fired immediately” over the killing of dozens of seven to 12-year-old Iranian schoolgirls in a missile attack on the first day of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
The suspect who killed one person and injured two others at Old Dominion University was identified by authorities as Mohamed Jalloh, a former member of the army national guard who pleaded guilty in 2016 to attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State.
The FBI said it is investigating the ramming of a car into a Michigan synagogue as “a targeted act of violence against the Jewish community”.
Iran started to lay mines in the strait of Hormuz on Thursday, a crucial Persian Gulf passage for 20% of the world’s oil supply, US officials told the New York Times.
While Donald Trump has boasted that the US military has destroyed Iran’s navy, officials said that Iran has started using smaller boats to place mines and enforce the closure of the strait it has imposed on its gulf neighbors, sending oil prices sky high.
Iran’s move to close the crucial shipping passage has long been an expected move by war planners in previous administrations, but apparently took the Trump administration by surprise.
