Overview
- Senate Republicans are drafting a party-line reconciliation bill to fund ICE and Border Patrol, and President Trump wants it on his desk by June 1.
- Reconciliation lets the Senate pass budget items with a simple majority, so GOP leaders are keeping the package focused to move it quickly.
- House conservatives are balking at a narrow bill and want either full DHS funding through reconciliation or add-ons like the SAVE Act, FISA changes, and cuts to Planned Parenthood.
- The DHS funding lapse continues as the House holds the Senate bill that omits ICE and Border Patrol, though Trump’s order to keep DHS paychecks flowing has eased recent airport strains.
- Immigrant-rights groups and Democrats oppose new enforcement money and warn that using reconciliation to steer tens of billions to ICE and Border Patrol would expand abuses and weaken oversight.