Overview
- Following Thursday's overnight vote-a-rama, the Senate approved the Republican budget blueprint 50–48 to advance immigration enforcement funding.
- Two Republicans, Lisa Murkowski and Rand Paul, broke with their party and voted no.
- The plan outlines roughly $70 billion for ICE and Customs and Border Protection over about three and a half years to cover operations through the current presidential term.
- Republicans are using budget reconciliation, which lets the Senate pass a bill with a simple majority, and they set May 15 for committee drafts and June 1 as the target for a final bill.
- Democrats say they will not support more enforcement money without policy and oversight changes after fatal agent-involved shootings in Minnesota, as DHS warns TSA payroll could soon fall short if Congress stalls.