On April 1, Republican leaders in Congress said they were on the verge of ending the record-long Department of Homeland Security shutdown "in the coming days." The political situation has only gotten messier since then.

With Congress still at a stalemate over how to end the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, Senate Republicans took a key step to tee up a party-line measure funding the most controversial

Senate Republicans voted early Thursday to adopt a $70 billion budget resolution to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol through the remainder of President Trump’s term in the latest attempt to fully reopen the Department of Homeland Security.

The Senate has taken the first steps in a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, voting to adopt a budget plan that would fund ICE and Border Patrol over Democratic objections

The Senate is working through the night as Republicans are trying to pass funding for two immigration enforcement agencies over Democratic objections and reopen the Department of Homeland Security

The process allows the Senate to get a simple majority instead of the 60 votes needed to pass funding for ICE and reopen DHS.

The Senate voted on Tuesday to launch a new effort to reopen the Department of Homeland Security and end the longest partial government

Senate Republicans who are scrambling to end the two-month shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) fear that Democrats will trigger an even bigger government shutdown in October and are working out strategies to avert that politically disastrous scenario.