WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — US President Barack Obama will sign the “clean” Appropriations Act that funds the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through September as soon as he receives it, the White House said in a statement.
"To make sure the Americans who protect our country and our people have the resources they need to get the job done, I will sign this bill into law as soon as I receive it," Obama said in the statement released on Tuesday.
The US Senate voted on the legislation on February 27.
Last week, Obama approved a funding extension for the DHS through March 6 that averted a partial shutdown of the agency.
The agreement to pass the bill was reached in the Senate when the Republican leadership removed language that defunded Obama’s executive action on immigration.
US Senate Democrats have blocked previously proposed DHS funding bills from coming to a vote because Republicans had included provisions barring funding for Obama’s November 2014 executive order, which provides deportation relief for millions of illegal immigrants living in the United States.
