Donald Trump has signed a bill to end the partial government shutdown, as lawmakers set up another funding cliff for the Department of Homeland Security amid a fight over the White House’s mass deportation campaign.
The US president signed the legislation on Tuesday afternoon, hours after the Republican-controlled House voted 217-214 to reopen parts of the federal government whose funding had lapsed at the weekend.
While the legislation will fund significant parts of the federal government through to the end of September, it also sets the stage for fraught negotiations over DHS, which oversees Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Under the terms of the deal, funding for DHS is set to run out on February 13.