The Senate passed a budget resolution early Thursday to fund ICE and Border Patrol in a bid to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, approving the measure 50-48 and sending it to the House.

The entire department has been shut down since mid-February, after Democrats demanded policy changes following the fatal shootings of two protesters by federal agents.

Republicans are using the budget reconciliation process, which allows passage by simple majority and bypasses the usual 60-vote threshold in the Senate.

The $70 billion plan would fund ICE and Border Patrol for three years, through the rest of President Trump’s term.