Senate again fails to pass homeland security funding as department shutdown nears one month – as it happened

The Senate again failed to pass a funding bill to reopen the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), amid a partial shutdown that has lasted almost a month .

By a vote of 51-46, mainly along party lines, lawmakers in the upper chamber remain at an impasse over stronger guardrails on federal immigration enforcement.

Only one Democrat, senator John Fetterman , broke with his party to vote for the appropriations bill that would fund DHS through September.

This is the fourth time the Senate has failed to clear the 60-vote threshold needed to pass a DHS funding bill this year.