JUST IN: Senate swiftly passes $2.1 billion emergency security supplemental bill in an overwhelmingly bipartisan vote. The bill now heads to the House for expected passage this week.
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, FILEThe bill now heads to the House for expected passage this week. Then it heads to the president for his signature.A Capitol Police Officer walks a police dog across the west front of the U.S. Capitol Building on May 14, 2021 in Washington, D.C.
The move staves off critical funding cuts that both the U.S. Capitol Police and National Guard were expected to enact following weeks of congressional inaction. Both forces were crushed by the emergency needs in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection, each relying on Congress to reimburse them in the months after the attack.
The emergency supplemental bill also has $1.125 billion to cover the Afghanistan Special Immigrant Visa program -- a little less than what the White House requested -- to
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