The Senate faces an expected budget vote-a-rama this week as Republicans seek to start the process of funding immigration enforcement without the support of Democrats.
A resolution from Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is expected to provide instructions for roughly $70 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. That would allow the agencies to be funded for a minimum of three years, or through the end of President Donald Trump’s term, without needing to go through the regular appropriations process.
Democrats have repeatedly expressed an unwillingness to fund the immigration agencies without significant operational reforms, and the Homeland Security Department is still partially shut down with no regular appropriations for the current fiscal year.
