Senate GOP unveils budget plan to fund ICE, Border Patrol through Trump’s term

Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) unveiled a budget resolution Tuesday that would fully fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for three and a half years, through the end of President Trump’s time in office.

The 58-page resolution calls for total federal spending of $60 trillion in on-budget outlays over the next decade and nearly $80 trillion in total outlays when spending on Social Security and the Postal Service are included, according to a summary table produced by the Senate Budget Committee.

Senate Republicans plan to pass the resolution this week to allow for a budget reconciliation bill funding ICE and CBP to pass the upper chamber later this spring without having to face a Democratic filibuster.

Republicans have put ICE and CBP funding on a fast track after Senate Democrats repeatedly blocked a Homeland Security appropriations bill that included funding for those agencies.

“Republicans are doing something that must be done quickly and that our Democrat colleagues are trying to prevent us from doing. That something is simple: fully fund Border Patrol and ICE at a time of great threat to the United States,” Graham said in a statement.

 “With this budget resolution, we are moving forward — not backward — on rational immigration policies that secure our border,” he said.

The measure includes reconciliation instructions to the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Homeland Security Committee, ordering them to each propose changes to the law that don’t increase deficits by more than $70 billion during the 2026-2035 budget window. That would allow the panels to recommend proposals increasing the deficit by up to $140 billion in total, according to Democrats. 

And it gives those committees a deadline of May 15 to submit their proposals to the Budget panel.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters that senators will begin voting on amendments to the budget resolution on either Wednesday or Thursday, depending on how much debate time lawmakers yield back.

The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 sets 50 hours of debate equally divided between the two parties once the Senate votes to proceed to the measure. The budget may be considered on the Senate floor on the same day it is reported out of the Budget Committee.

Democrats criticized the Republican proposal to spend tens of billions of dollars more on ICE and Border Patrol.

“Rather than focusing on lowering the cost of gas or groceries, Congressional Republicans are hellbent on passing another bill to provide even more funds to ICE and CBP — agencies that were already funded at multiple times their former budget last year!” said Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the ranking member on the Budget panel.

“Republicans rejected any commonsense reforms for these agencies, such as wearing identification or getting a warrant before breaking into homes. Instead, the Republican plan is more money for more secret police tactics that are terrorizing communities across America,” he said.

Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.) criticized her GOP colleagues for “working hard to cut another massive blank check for ICE and Border Patrol — without any reforms or even basic guardrails.”

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which Trump signed into law last year, allocated more than $170 billion for border security and immigration enforcement.

Udpated at 12:07 p.m. EDT

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