Senate ICE Funding Vote

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Senate Republicans voted 50-48 to advance a $70B plan funding ICE and Border Patrol for three years, sending the non-binding budget resolution to the House. The vote marks a step toward ending a partial DHS shutdown that began mid-February. Senators Rand Paul and Lisa Murkowski opposed the measure. Republicans plan to use budget reconciliation to bypass Democratic opposition, with funding expected to run through January 2029.

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00:02Senate Republicans voted 50 to 48 early Thursday to advance a $70 billion plan to fund Immigration

00:09and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol for three years, and sent the non-binding budget

00:14resolution to the House, according to CNBC. The vote marked a step toward ending a partial

00:19Department of Homeland Security shutdown that began in mid-February. Senators Rand Paul and

00:24Lisa Murkowski opposed the measure. If the House adopts the resolution, committees will draft

00:30spending details in separate legislation that Trump must sign, with funding expected to run

00:34through January 2029. Republicans plan to use budget reconciliation to bypass Democratic

00:40opposition. Funding for most of DHS expired more than nine weeks ago, as Democrats pushed

00:45Republicans and the White House to accept new constraints on ICE and Border Patrol operations.

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