Significance: The vote by the House committee on appropriations coincided with the conclusion of a two-day visit to Washington DC by Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray, who met a handful of senior members of the US Congress on Capitol Hill as well as officials in the White House for further discussions over immigration, drug-trafficking, and the impending renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta). The vote on funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is only the start of what promises to be a long and acrimonious budget debate over the next two months.
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