Homeland Security bill removed from latest funding package

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Funding for the Department of Homeland Security will not be included in the next slate of appropriations bills that dropped on Sunday, deviating from the original plan and coming after uproar over an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer-involved shooting in Minneapolis.

The House Appropriations Committee released text for its next package, or “minibus,” that comprises a bill for Financial Services-General Government and a bill for National Security and the State Department. Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) told reporters last week that the minibus would include legislation funding Homeland Security, but that is no longer the case.

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