Senate Republicans on Tuesday released the text of a budget resolution to fully fund two controversial immigration enforcement agencies at the heart of the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown through the end of President Donald Trump’s term.
The resolution seeks to fund the two DHS divisions — Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection — without having to rely on votes from Democratic senators to do so.
Opposition from Democrats to funding ICE and CBP first triggered the partial shutdown of DHS and has kept it going.
The Senate could take a preliminary vote on the measure as early as Tuesday afternoon. The resolution, which directs the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Judiciary committees to draft final immigration enforcement bills, sets a cap of $70 billion for each committee.
Trump has set a June 1 deadline for passage of a final bill to fund the two divisions.
