Politico has this story on how Democrats in the U.S. Senate “again blocked Republicans’ attempt Wednesday to bring up a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security.”

They did so by filibustering the legislation “over provisions that would unravel President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration.”

The vote was 53-47 — 60 votes were needed for the GOP to keep the bill alive — and Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz of Hawaii once again voted “nay.”

The Senate reached the same outcome on the same bill Tuesday, and it is likely to happen again, say D.C. observers.

Screen shot from the U.S. Immigration website.

“Senate Republicans plan to force the minority to block the bill multiple times, and they slammed Democrats for refusing to let the chamber even take up the DHS funding measure so changes more to their liking could be considered,” Politico explains.

“They prevented the legislation from even being debated,” Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) complained of the Democrats. “Today’s Democrat Party seems willing to go to any extreme to protect the kind of executive overreach President Obama once described as ‘not how our democracy functions’ – even to block Homeland Security funding to get its way.”

But Democrats say they won’t take up anything short of “a clean funding bill free of immigration riders” that attack Obama’s actions, and they insist that “a debate over immigration should not be tied to must-pass funding for DHS.”