After 75 Days, the DHS Shutdown Is Over

The longest government shutdown in American history ended on Thursday with President Donald Trump’s signature on an appropriations bill to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that was passed by the House earlier that day after previously being approved by the Senate.The bill funds much of DHS through Sept. 30, including the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. But the legislation doesn’t include funding for immigration enforcement agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and parts of Border Patrol.The shutdown began on Feb. 14 amid a bitter standoff between Democrats and Republicans over immigration enforcement that was spurred by federal officers fatally shooting two American citizens in Minneapolis at the start of the year. Democratic lawmakers refused to pass a funding bill for DHS unless it included new guardrails on federal immigration agents. But Republicans rejected their demands, arguing that such measures would impede the Trump Administration’s immigration enforcement agenda.The lapse in appropriations left thousands of DHS staffers working without pay for weeks, including TSA officers. Many TSA agents called out of work or quit the force entirely to take on other jobs to pay their bills, throwing