The House and Senate on Thursday both approved a $2.1 billion supplemental security spending package that directs much-needed funding to the U.S. Capitol Police and National Guard, under strain following the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and bolsters federal efforts to relocate Afghans who aided U.S. troops during the war in Afghanistan.

The legislation passed the Senate with unanimous support in a 98-0 vote. It was then swiftly taken up by the House, which approved the spending bill 416 to 11. In the Senate, Republicans Roger Marshall of Kansas and Mike Rounds of South Dakota were absent from the vote. The White House backed the measure and its approval by Congress.

"We each might not have gotten everything that we wanted, but on this specific issue, we got what the country needed," Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, who negotiated the deal, said after the bill's passage.