US Senate fails for seventh time to advance bill to partly fund DHS
by Shrai Popat in Washington from World news | The Guardian on (#74HAR)
Vote came after Trump said he would sign an order directing agency's new secretary to pay TSA agents
The Senate again failed to advance a bill to fund part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which has now been shut down for almost six weeks.
The latest vote came just hours after Donald Trump said he would sign an executive order instructing Markwayne Mullin, the DHS secretary, to immediately pay Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agents during the shutdown, a move that could ease the immediate urgency for Congress to reach a deal as it heads into a scheduled twoweek recess.
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