After weeks of negotiations with Democrats, Republicans say they’ll pass a party-line bill to fund ICE and Border Patrol, which would end the partial shutdown.
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President Donald Trump endorsed a plan Wednesday to end the nearly seven-week-old shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security by going around Democrats to fund parts of the agency.
Trump urged Republicans to send him a party-line bill by June 1 to fund two agencies within the department — Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol — using the reconciliation process, which would allow him to bypass Democrats, who had demanded new guardrails on those agencies in exchange for their votes. This process would allow Republicans to pass a funding bill with a simple majority and avoid a Democratic filibuster.
