House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a news conference after the House Republican Conference Caucus meeting at the Republican National Committee headquarters on Wednesday, May 13, 2026, in Washington.
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The US House is set to vote on a $70 billion package to fund immigration enforcement agencies and, after months of partisan fighting, the measure will be sent to President Donald Trump’s desk.
The package would fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, two sub-agencies of the Department of Homeland Security cut out of an earlier spending bill amid Democratic opposition, and would end a long debate over immigration enforcement policy that began in January and led to the government shutdown.
A final House vote to pass the immigration funding package could take place as soon as Tuesday.
The Senate passed the package early Friday morning 52-47 vote. It would fund immigration enforcement agencies until the end of Trump’s presidency. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, was the only Republican to vote against it.
“We were forced to use the reconciliation process because during the appropriations process, Democrats objected to giving any money to Border Patrol and ICE, effectively shutting down our border security at a time of growing threats to the nation,” Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., chairman of the Senate Budget Panel, said in a statement Friday after the measure passed. Graham was referring to the budget reconciliation process, which allows legislation to pass in the Senate on a party-line vote.
Graham added, “In less than two years, President Trump has taken the border from the most broken in history to the most secure. The bill we passed today locks in those gains for the remainder of his term.”
Democrats have opposed funding for both ICE and CBP since two civilians were killed by federal law enforcement in Minneapolis during immigration enforcement in January. Republicans were forced to turn to the budget reconciliation process after more than two months of a partial government shutdown.
Budget reconciliation can only be used for spending-related measures, but requires only 50 votes for passage in the Senate, whereas 60 votes are usually needed to overcome the filibuster. This measure requires only a simple majority in the House, where rules committee Consideration will begin from Monday afternoon.
With a razor-thin majority in the House, Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., will need nearly unanimous support to advance the measure, which is expected to get little, if any, Democratic support.
Trump had initially demanded a package On his table by June 1stBut its fate was uncertain in late May when the President, without consulting Congress, announced a $1.8 billion “anti-weapons” fund to compensate Americans wrongly targeted by the government, potentially including the January 6 defendants.
The proposal faced bipartisan backlash and nearly derailed the reconciliation process. The Senate canceled a scheduled vote on the package in late May and left town as outrage grew within GOP ranks.
Still, a Democratic effort to add an amendment to the package — as part of a marathon process known as a vote-a-rama that accompanies reconciliation — on Thursday that would block Trump from creating the fund fell short. Only three Republican senators joined their Democratic colleagues in their effort to block the funds.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. “Now the entire country can see the truth: Republicans fought hard to protect Donald Trump and his dirty funds, but didn’t lift a finger to help working Americans keep their costs down,” he said in a statement Friday.
