At around 3 a.m. today, it looked like Congress was going to get out of town for two weeks after ending a bitter, 42-day shutdown for the Department of Homeland Security.
At Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s direction, the Senate unanimously cleared a funding bill that reopened nearly all of DHS except for ICE enforcement and elements of CBP. Senators then sprinted out of town. The House was supposed to follow suit.