U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks to members of the media because the Trump Cabinet briefs members of Congress on Iran on the U.S. Capitol on March 3, 2026 in Washington, DC.
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Senate Republicans on Tuesday launched the textual content of a price range decision to completely fund two controversial immigration enforcement businesses on the coronary heart of the continued Department of Homeland Security shutdown by the tip of President Donald Trump‘s time period.
The decision seeks to fund the 2 DHS divisions — Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection — with out having to depend on votes from Democratic senators to take action.
Opposition from Democrats to funding ICE and CBP first triggered the partial shutdown of DHS and has saved it going.
The Senate might take a preliminary vote on the measure as early as Tuesday afternoon. The decision, which directs the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Judiciary committees to draft closing immigration enforcement payments, units a cap of $70 billion for every committee.
Trump has set a June 1 deadline for passage of a closing invoice to fund the 2 divisions.
“Republicans are doing something that must be done quickly, and that our Democrat colleagues are trying to prevent us from doing. That something is simple: fully fund Border Patrol and ICE at a time of great threat to the United States,” Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., stated in a statement.
“With this budget resolution, we are moving forward — not backward — on rational immigration policies that secure our border,” Graham stated.
Democrats instantly vowed to struggle the invoice.
“Instead of doing literally anything to lower costs, Republicans are spending their time working hard to cut another massive blank check for ICE and Border Patrol — without any reforms, or even basic guardrails,” Senate Appropriations Committee rating member Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., stated in an announcement.
Democrats refused to fund ICE and components of CBP after federal brokers killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis in January as a part of an immigration crackdown by the Trump administration.
Funding lapsed for DHS in February. Since then, lawmakers have struggled to achieve a funding deal, as Democrats proceed to name for modifications to federal immigration practices.
“After the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, people across the country demanded ICE be reined in,” Murray stated.
“But instead of working with Democrats to enact real reform, Republicans rejected the most basic accountability measures, and now they’re rushing to give ICE billions of dollars more,” she stated.
The Senate in late March unanimously handed a package deal that might fund all of DHS aside from ICE and Border Patrol, with a plan to then pursue a price range reconciliation package deal to fund these two divisions. Budget reconciliation, which is used to cross spending-related issues, requires a easy 50-vote majority within the Senate, versus the 60 votes usually required to beat a filibuster.
House Republicans spiked that deal and as a substitute handed a stopgap measure to increase funding for all of DHS by May 22.
That decision then moved to the Senate, the place it didn’t have sufficient votes to cross, extending the shutdown.
