The House on Thursday passed a spending package for a broad swath of the government, narrowly mustering the votes to fund the Department of Homeland Security amid a Democratic revolt over spending for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The package, which also would fund the Pentagon and the health and transportation departments, rejects the deepest spending cuts that President Trump requested, including a 50 percent reduction to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a 40 percent cut to the National Institutes of Health, which would instead receive a $415 million boost. It also rejects Mr. Trump’s request for a $840 million increase in funding for ICE, leaving funding for the agency roughly flat.
It contains the final set of spending bills that must be enacted before next Friday in order to avoid a government shutdown. The legislation still must pass the Senate before it can be sent to Mr. Trump, but it appeared to be on track to clear Congress.
The approval of the package accomplished what is now considered a remarkable feat on Capitol Hill: the successful negotiation and passage of a series of individual government spending bills, without resorting to rolling them all together into a huge take-it-or-leave-it package, or punting altogether and relying on a stopgap, emergency measure to keep funding flat.
But it came over the bitter protests of Democrats, who said they would not vote for legislation that provided funding for ICE — or not without major changes — on the heels of the fatal shooting of Renee Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis woman, by a federal immigration agent.
In the end, the vote to pass the homeland security funding legislation was 220 to 207, with 206 Democrats voting against it, and seven voting for it. Republican leaders agreed to allow a separate vote on that bill to allow Democrats to register their unhappiness with the measure without imperiling the rest of the spending package. One Republican, Representative Thomas Massie of Kentucky, also opposed the bill.
The other three, less divisive spending bills, passed on a vote of 341 to 88.
Top Democrats including Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the minority leader, opposed the homeland security bill.
