House Republicans cleared a $70 billion reconciliation package Tuesday to fund immigration enforcement agencies for the rest of President Donald Trump’s term.
On a party-line vote of 214-212, the House cleared the reconciliation bill that the Senate passed last week. Independent Kevin Kiley of California, who caucuses with the Republicans, voted no.
Final passage of the measure brings to an end a monthslong partisan stalemate over immigration enforcement funding.
After immigration agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis last winter, Democrats insisted on imposing new policy restrictions to advance fiscal 2026 Homeland Security funding. Republicans resisted the curbs, saying they would hamstring the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement crackdown.
The two parties eventually agreed to fund the Department of Homeland Security except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol though September, the end of the fiscal year.
