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Senate Republicans plan to vote next week on budget plan to fund ICE, Border Patrol

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by Alexander Bolton - 04/14/26 3:23 PM ET

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by Alexander Bolton - 04/14/26 3:23 PM ET

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters Tuesday that he plans to bring a budget resolution to the Senate floor as soon as next week to set the stage for bypassing a Democratic filibuster of funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol.

Thune said that by passing a budget resolution that is also agreed to by the House, it will unlock the process for passing a bill to fund ICE and Border Patrol for the next several years without having to rely on any Democratic votes.

“Republicans are going to stand with our Border Patrol, with our law enforcement agencies, and we’re going to ensure that they are funded not only today, but well into the future. And so the budget resolution Sen. [Lindsey] Graham (R-S.C.) is preparing we will have on the floor hopefully as early as next week … will provide multiple years of funding for these agencies — and a reconciliation bill, which will follow shortly after, will ensure that job gets done,” Thune said after meeting with Senate GOP colleagues over lunch.

Graham, the Senate Budget Committee chair, will manage the floor debate and the votes on amendments to the budget resolution.

A Republican senator briefed on the GOP leadership’s plans said senators are expecting to hold an all-night vote-a-rama on April 23.

Thune says the budget resolution will be narrowly targeted to fund ICE and Border Patrol — the two agencies Democrats have refused to fund through the regular appropriations process unless the White House agrees to reform them by requiring judicial warrants before federal officers can enter private homes and by banning officers from wearing masks.

Senate Republicans used the same budget reconciliation process last year to enact Trump’s agenda of tax cuts and to provide hundreds of billions of dollars to the Defense Department to boost its supply of weapons and the Homeland Security Department to secure the border and enforce immigration law.

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