Gop Races To Pass Ice, Border Patrol Funding Bill As Priorities Pile Up, Divisions Emerge<\/a><\/p>\n Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said that there are “limited options” for ending the shutdown.<\/p>\n (Getty Images)<\/p>\n “My question for anybody who doesn’t like what we did is: give me a better idea. Give me another option,” Thune said. “We\u2019ll see, ultimately, what the House does with it.”<\/p>\n Read On The Fox News App<\/a><\/p>\n When the House returns Tuesday, the shutdown will have reached 59 days.<\/p>\n The Senate has its spending bill, which would fund the Department of Homeland Security<\/a> while carving out funding for ICE and parts of CBP, with the end goal of funding immigration enforcement through the party-line budget reconciliation process.<\/p>\n ‘We Didn’t Cave’: Thune Highlights Schumer, Dems’ Losses In Dhs Funding Deal<\/a><\/p>\n Freedom Caucus Chair Rep. Andy Harris talks to reporters as he walks to the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on July 2, 2025, in Washington.<\/p>\n House Republicans previously rejected that plan. But after President Donald Trump<\/a> demanded a reconciliation package with ICE and CBP funding on his desk by June 1, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., ceded to the Senate.<\/p>\n Still, Republicans in the lower chamber are furious that they again have to consider the Senate\u2019s compromise deal and are threatening to further prolong the shutdown.<\/p>\n The House had an opportunity in recent days to pass the bill, but Republicans opted against it. Instead, they held a conference call where lawmakers said they would not vote for the Senate plan until there was meaningful progress on a reconciliation package.<\/p>\n Johnson Accuses Democrats Of Taking Government Hostage Over \u2018Crazy\u2019 Immigration Agenda<\/a><\/p>\n Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., dubbed the closure the “Johnson shutdown.”<\/p>\n The conservative House Freedom Caucus took that<\/a> a step further Tuesday, throwing a wrench into those plans. The group wants to fund the entire department through a single budget reconciliation bill.<\/p>\n “We cannot leave ICE and CBP hanging with nothing but hopes and prayers that reconciliation 2.0 comes together,” the group wrote on social media. “That\u2019s why we must use reconciliation to fully fund all of the Department of Homeland Security.”<\/p>\n Whether House Republicans coalesce behind that demand when they return remains to be seen, but it has given congressional Democrats<\/a> ammunition in the ongoing shutdown messaging war.<\/p>\n Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer,<\/a> D-N.Y., dubbed the closure the “Johnson shutdown.”<\/p>\n “It\u2019s a Republican shutdown,” Schumer told CNN. “All he had to do was put that bill on the floor, and it would have passed overwhelmingly. So Republicans are hardly unified. They\u2019re squirming about.”<\/p>\n![\"Senate](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775702011_67_9add5f9ba361e2580558e0ae7dc4e259.jpeg\"\/)
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