Senate Democrats say Republicans have agreed to separate DHS funding from a package of five other appropriations bills that have already passed the House but have not yet cleared the Senate.

The bill represents a 1% increase over last year, but additional government funding will bring the defense budget close to $1 trillion.

Congress is halfway home in approving government funding for the current budget year that began Oct. 1 after the Senate overwhelmingly passed a three-bill package on Thursday.

The House has approved the final set of spending bills to avoid a government shutdown, despite objections from Democrats to the funding levels set for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Even as the Trump administration has increasingly militarized drug and immigration enforcement, Congress took a step to restrain that trend.

The conferenced defense spending bill would increase funding for both the Air Force and Navy's sixth-generation fighters.

The House has passed this year's final batch of spending bills. Lawmakers still smarting from last fall’s record 43-day shutdown worked to avoid another funding lapse for a broad swath of the federal government.

Bipartisan senators blocked a massive spending bill Thursday, as eleventh-hour talks continue to avoid a costly partial government shutdown that looms at the week’s end.