House Dems help GOP pass bills to fund ICE, avert shutdown

• Seven Democrats voted for the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill that included funding for ICE: Reps. Jared Golden (Maine), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Henry Cuellar (Texas), Don Davis (N.C.), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Tom Suozzi (N.Y.) and Laura Gillen (N.Y.).
• One Republican voted against it: Rep. Thomas Massie (Ky.). The DHS bill passed 220-207.
• The other package of bills, which funds the Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Labor, Transportation, and Housing and Urban Development, passed easily in a bipartisan vote, 341-88.

What they're saying: Several of the Democrats who voted for the DHS funding bill told Axios they did so because of what else it funds besides ICE.

• "Ultimately [voting no] will not defund these appalling operations that ICE is conducting around the country," said Gonzalez, "but in my district it would defund the Coast Guard ... it would defund FEMA."
• Davis similarly cited FEMA funding, telling Axios: "When I think about Eastern North Carolina, it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when we're going to experience another natural disaster."

Between the lines: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) personally opposed the bill, telling colleagues Wednesday morning that Republicans rejected his efforts to include measures restraining ICE.

• Several Democrats have called to go even further than reforming the agency in the wake of the Renee Good shooting, calling to defund or even abolish it altogether.
• But Jeffries and his leadership team did not conduct a whip operation urging their members to vote against the bill, leaving centrists free to break with him.

Editor's note: This story has been updated with additional reporting.