Senate GOP Advances New Reconciliation Push to Lock In Multi‑Year ICE and CBP Funding During DHS Shutdown
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Senate Republicans, led publicly by Sens. Lindsey Graham and John Barrasso and backed by President Trump, are racing to advance a narrowly tailored reconciliation package in the Senate to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for the remainder of the president’s term. The move, announced amid a partial Department of Homeland Security shutdown now in its second month, is intended to lock in multi‑year funding for Border Patrol and ICE and to insulate those agencies from future annual appropriations fights; Trump has publicly endorsed the strategy on social media and urged the bill to be completed and on his desk by June 1. GOP leaders say the bill will be specific to immigration enforcement and deliberately avoid broader, potentially disqualifying elements such as the SAVE America Act to keep it parsimonious enough for reconciliation rules.