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Senate Republicans advanced a $70 billion budget plan to fund immigration enforcement agencies using reconciliation.
The Homeland Security Department has been partially shut down for weeks amid legislative gridlock.
Republican Senators Lisa Murkowski and Rand Paul joined Democrat

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