Democrats join Republicans to pass $1.2 trillion spending package, advancing key step to prevent potential government shutdown by Jan. 30 deadline.

WASHINGTON - The House narrowly passed $1.2 trillion in government funding Thursday, overcoming intense Democratic opposition to funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the agency surges operations in Minneapolis and other cities. The Department of Homeland Security funding bill — which would allocate $64.4 billion to it, including $10 billion for ICE — was approved 220-207, with seven Democrats joining all but one Republican in voting yes. Lawmakers also approved three other bills to fund the Departments of Defense, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and Education, by a wider bipartisan margin of 341-88. Democrats have argued Congress should not approve funding for the immigration enforcement agency after officers sent to Minnesota and other states have taken action against U.S. citizens. The agency has flooded cities across the country over the past year, which President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem have said is necessary to…