The House on Tuesday voted along party lines, 214-212, to pass a $70 billion bill that would fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol. The Senate approved the measure last week, so the bill now only needs Trump’s signature.
That shutdown largely ended in April, when Trump signed a bill funding DHS agencies that didn’t fall under immigration enforcement, as both parties in Congress tried to negotiate the details of separate funding for ICE and Border Patrol. But those negotiations collapsed, and the GOP eventually resorted to the budget reconciliation process, which allowed them to pass legislation to fund the agencies while bypassing a potential Senate filibuster.
But Republicans united to pass the immigration funding on Tuesday. Speaker Mike Johnson said the House vote ended “the Democrat Department of Homeland Security shutdown once and for all,” and that Republicans have “taken away” the Democrats’ ability to “take hostage” immigration-related funding for the remainder of the Trump Administration.
The legislation further inflates ICE’s usual $10 billion annual budget. The agency already received a $75 billion windfall from Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act last year, which made it the most heavily funded law enforcement agency in the federal government. But under the reconciliation package, ICE is set to receive another $38.5 billion to hire, pay, and train personnel over the three years—including $7 billion for Homeland Security Investigations agents.
Another $5 billion will be made available for Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to spend at his discretion.
What’s out?
To Democrats’ disappointment, the bill passed without imposing any new restrictions on how immigration agents should operate. Throughout the standoff, Democrats wanted to mandate body cams on officers, bar them from wearing masks during enforcement operations, and require judicial warrants before they could enter homes, among other reforms.
But the bill is not a total victory for the Trump Administration. It also excluded an originally planned $1.5 billion for the Justice Department, following the controversy over the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, which the Administration has said that it will no longer pursue, though the bill has no clauses explicitly ruling it out.Another $1 billion of additional funding for the U.S. Secret Service also failed to make the legislation. The funding would have been used for security-related upgrades related to the White House ballroom project, but even some GOP lawmakers scrutinized the addition. The Senate parliamentarian ultimately ruled that the additional funding violated the Byrd Rule, which prohibits “extraneous” provisions from being tacked onto reconciliation bills.
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