WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The US Senate voted on Friday to approve a $40 billion bill to fund the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through September 30, 2015.
The DHS funding bill will now be sent to the US House of Representatives for a vote on Friday.
The DHS bill passed by the Senate is a “clean bill,” requested by US Senate Democrats and US President Barack Obama administration, and does not contain language to defund Obama’s November 2014 immigration executive order.
A separate Senate vote will follow immediately after the passage of DHS funding to authorize debate on a bill to defund President 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 executive order.
