Trump backs Senate government funding deal that includes DHS extension

President Donald Trump on Thursday endorsed a Senate deal to fund the vast majority of the federal government through the remainder of the fiscal year.

Trump’s endorsement is likely to significantly ease the passage of a six-bill funding package the Senate is considering with just over a day until a partial government shutdown. Senators clinched a deal shortly before Trump’s announcement, agreeing to strip funding for the Department of Homeland Security from the package and pass the other five bills, while DHS will be funded by a stopgap.

“Republicans and Democrats in Congress have come together to get the vast majority of the Government funded until September, while at the same time providing an extension to the Department of Homeland Security (including the very important Coast Guard, which we are expanding and rebuilding like never before),” Trump said in a Truth Social post.

“Hopefully, both Republicans and Democrats will give a very much needed Bipartisan ‘YES’ Vote,” he said.

The Senate is expected to begin taking up the revised bill Thursday night, which would fund the Departments of Defense, Treasury, State, Health and Human Services, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and Education. Democrats demanded to strip the DHS portion of the bill after two U.S. citizens were shot and killed by federal immigration agents in Minnesota this month.

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