Senate Republicans plan to release a budget resolution next week that would kick-start the process for a reconciliation bill on immigration enforcement funding and help end a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, lawmakers said Thursday.
The party is aiming to provide about $70 billion in funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol to sustain them for at least the next three years, without placing any new guardrails on federal immigration agents sought by Democrats. The budget resolution would contain instructions to the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Judiciary panels, which would be charged with writing the details of the upcoming reconciliation bill.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said Thursday that the chamber is “hoping to get on a budget resolution by middle to end of next week.”
