President Donald Trump on Wednesday urged Congress to pass a reconciliation bill that would fund the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol within the next two months, giving them a deadline of June 1.
Congress has failed to reach a deal to fund DHS, which has been directly affected by the partial government shutdown since mid-February. Trump hopes the reconciliation solution, a Senate procedure that bypasses the filibuster and does not require a bill to have a 60-vote majority, will get the funding deal across the finish line. He has consistently blamed the Democrats for the funding lapse.
“We are going forward to fund our incredible ICE Agents and Border Patrol through a process that doesn’t need Radical Left Democrat votes, and bypasses the Senate Filibuster (which should be repealed, IMMEDIATELY!), working in close conjunction with House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Leader John Thune,” the president wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post.
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“We are going to work as fast, and as focused, as possible to replenish funding for our Border and ICE Agents, and the Radical Left Democrats won’t be able to stop us,” he continued. “We will not allow them to hurt the families of these Great Patriots by defunding them. I am asking that the Bill be on my desk NO LATER than June 1st.”
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