GOP's ICE funding gambit squeezes Republican agenda

(The Hill) Republicans’ plan to use the special budget reconciliation process to fund immigration enforcement without help from Democrats will complicate their hopes of using one of their few remaining shots at a GOP-only bill on priorities including voting reform, Pentagon funding due to the Iran war and cuts aimed at cracking down on fraud in federal programs.

President Trump set a June 1 deadline for a reconciliation bill that funds Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol as part of a two-step plan to end the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown, giving up on coming to a compromise with Democrats demanding reforms as a condition of funding immigration enforcement.

But with Republican leaders hoping to keep that bill as narrow as possible to meet the deadline, there is a growing consensus that those who had been advocating for a follow-up to last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will actually need a third measure to achieve their priorities — a task that becomes exponentially more difficult the closer to election season Republicans get.

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