On February 27, Congress approved H.R. 33, which would extend funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through March 6.
On January 14, the House approved H.R. 240, a bill to fund DHS through FY2015 and block President Obama’s executive order to expand immigration deportation deferrals (see The Source, 1/16/15). However, the bill failed to garner the requisite 60 votes required in the Senate to end cloture and move to final passage. The Senate then passed a version of H.R. 240 that stripped the immigration-related provisions. The amended version failed to pass the House.
Stopgap funding for DHS, which Congress included in the omnibus spending bill (P.L. 113-235) approved in December 2014, expired at midnight on February 27.
