ICE Doesn't Need the Money. Republicans Want to Give It a Decade's Worth Anyway.

Senate GOP is using a budget shortcut to fund an agency already financed through 2029 — and calling it an emergency.

WASHINGTON — Fifty-eight days into a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, Senate Republicans have settled on their solution: rewrite the rules of the federal budget to cut Democrats out of the process entirely and pour years’ worth of money into an immigration enforcement agency tha doesn’t need it.

The plan, being driven by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and John Barrasso, R-Wyo., would use the budget reconciliation process — a parliamentary shortcut that requires only a simple Senate majority — to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. President Trump has publicly blessed the effort and demanded a bill on his desk by June 1.

There’s just one inconvenient fact standing in the way of the GOP’s emergency: ICE is already prefunded through 2029.

Graham has floated the idea of locking in enforcement funding for up to a decade. A decade. For an agency whose funding runway already extends to the end of this presidential term and beyo…