House Republicans Advance Two-Track Plan to Supercharge ICE Funding (Again)

Budget framework unlocks $70 billion for enforcement; plus separate funding vote to re-open DHS.

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Wednesday advanced a two-track strategy to pour billions more into Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol while postponing a full funding deal for the Department of Homeland Security, sharpening a partisan fight over immigration enforcement and the ongoing DHS shutdown.

The plan, backed by President Donald Trump and driven by hard-line immigration allies in Congress, would first use the budget reconciliation process to send tens of billions of dollars to ICE and U.S. Customs and Border Protection outside the normal Senate filibuster process. GOP leaders then plan to move a separate appropriations package later to reopen the rest of DHS.

The strategy effectively gives ICE a second major funding boost after Republicans already approved a massive enforcement increase in last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Critics say the approach underscores how deeply GOP lawmakers have aligned themselves with Trump’s deportation agenda and White H…