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U.S. Sen. John Thune attends the Republican Jewish Coalition\u2019s Annual Leadership Summit in Las Vegas, Nev., Oct. 28, 2023. Photo: Gage Skidmore \/ Flickr \/ CC BY-SA 2.0 \/ Cropped from Original<\/p>\n

(The Center Square) \u2013 U.S. Senate Republicans released a blueprint for their immigration enforcement funding bill Tuesday, paving the way to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, which has been shut down for 67 days.<\/p>\n

The budget resolution<\/a> directs the congressional Judiciary and Homeland Security committees to craft a budget reconciliation bill \u2013 a filibuster-proof vehicle for advancing federal spending \u2013 that pledges annual funds to ICE and U.S. Border Patrol for the next 3.5 years.<\/p>\n

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said the advance funding, up to $140 billion, is \u201cto prevent another reckless attempt by Democrats to defund law enforcement when we next take up appropriations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI suspect our Democrat colleagues will cry \u2018partisanship,\u2019\u201d Thune said on the Senate floor Tuesday. \u201cDemocrats \u2013 and Democrats alone \u2013 have made this process partisan. Republicans bent over backwards to work with them. But it was never enough, and we\u2019ve run out of time to play the Democrats\u2019 games.\u201d<\/p>\n

For months, Democratic lawmakers have refused to provide the votes necessary for Senate passage of the Homeland Security funding bill \u2013 the last remaining fiscal year 2026 appropriations bill \u2013 unless Republicans incorporated a laundry list of immigration enforcement restrictions.<\/p>\n

Republican leaders finally determined that the only way to cleanly end the DHS shutdown was by splitting immigration enforcement funding from the Homeland Security bill, then passing that stripped funding, plus extra, separately via budget reconciliation.<\/p>\n

The hybrid Homeland Security bill has already passed the Senate and only needs the House\u2019s approval to reach the president\u2019s desk.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s the irony of it: Democrats are going to get absolutely nothing for their dangerous game they played here,\u201d House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters Tuesday. \u201cIn the coming days, the House will be working closely with the Senate as they commence on that reconciliation process.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats and deficit watchdog groups condemned the budget resolution, the former for its lack of ICE and CBP reforms and the latter for its price tag.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe budget process is already badly broken, and this resolution would make it worse by using reconciliation to sidestep the regular appropriations process and put even more spending on autopilot,\u201d Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo make matters worse, this budget resolution allows twice as much spending as they say they need by allowing two different committees to each spend $70 billion, and it doesn\u2019t require any offsets to finance the costs,\u201d she added. \u201cLawmakers should be putting forward a real plan to govern and a real plan to improve the nation\u2019s finances.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Sen. John Thune attends the Republican Jewish Coalition\u2019s Annual Leadership Summit in Las Vegas, Nev., Oct. 28,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[22869,2152,24158,490,1068,1738,475,478,1076,24159,1056],"class_list":{"0":"post-36849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mike-johnson","8":"tag-appropriations-bill","9":"tag-budget-reconciliation-bill","10":"tag-budget-resolution","11":"tag-department-of-homeland-security","12":"tag-homeland-security","13":"tag-immigration-enforcement","14":"tag-john-thune","15":"tag-mike-johnson","16":"tag-republicans","17":"tag-sen","18":"tag-senate-majority-leader"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116445181693312832","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}