The House of Representatives passed an eight-week funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). However, it has little chance of being approved by the Senate and guarantees that the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security will become the longest in history. With 213 votes in favor and 203 against, including those of three Democrats joining all the Republicans who voted in favor of the bill, a two-month extension was guaranteed to ensure the operation of the DHS. "In those eight weeks, we will work this out with the Democrats and find a couple of reforms or whatever is necessary to make sure we do this right, but we are going to protect the homeland. We have to do it. It is the most important and fundamental function of Congress, and the Democrats don't want to do it," said Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House of Representatives, during an interview on the Ingraham Angle television program, which airs on Fox News. While a dozen members of Congress chose not to vote; Democrats Don Davis, representative of North Carolina; Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, congresswoman from Washington, and Henry Cuellar, representative from Texas, set aside their party affiliation and voted to approve what is considered a funding patch that includes other federal agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and US Customs and Border Protection (CBP). From the perspective of Republican leaders, the Senate can approve the bill unanimously at the start of next week. However, Chuck Schumer, Senate Minority Leader, believes the initiative is doomed to fail in the upper chamber because, to overcome parliamentary obstruction, it requires the support of the Democratic minority. "From day one we have been clear: Democrats will fund essential Homeland Security functions, But we will not give carte blanche to Trump's illegal and lethal immigration militia without reforms. A 60-day budget continuity resolution that perpetuates the status quo is doomed to fail in the Senate, and Republicans know it," he emphasized.