A historically long 75-day partial government shutdown has ended after the House passed funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a voice vote, following a late-night Republican rally to boost a GOP budget blueprint. The tides turned on Wednesday evening when the House passed the Republican resolution following a last-minute deal over unrelated ethanol fuel provisions that flipped enough holdouts to push it over the line. That blueprint unlocked a procedural tool allowing Republicans to pass up to $75bn for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the border patrol on party lines, sidestepping Democratic demands for new oversight
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