Republican Efforts to fund Homeland Security Update…..

The Senate  Democrats HAVE held tight against any Homeland Security Spending unless there is limitations on the ICE and CBP anti-immigration actions….

Republicans have resisted the limits….

The effort moves to the Senate and House reconciliation process dancing….

The effort is NOT assured…..

Republicans are scared that with a probable Democratic majority in the House ?

The Democratic limits WILL HAVE to be instituted ….

Will they take what they CAN get ?

 

House Republicans grumbling about the structure of a “skinny” reconciliation bill to fund immigration enforcement — and their skepticism about prospects for passing another GOP-only funding package this year — are creating hurdles for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) as he aims to put the measure on the House floor next week.

“This will probably be the last reconciliation we do before the end of the year. We got the break coming up, and it’s just we got to address — we got to put more to it than just this,” said Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), a member of the House Freedom Caucus.

The Senate in the wee hours of Thursday morning adopted a budget reconciliation framework to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol for three and a half years. It’s part of a two-step process to end the record-long Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown after Republicans were unable to come to an agreement with Democrats, who were seeking reforms to immigration enforcement, to fund the agencies.

Republican leaders resorted to using the special reconciliation process, which bypasses the threat of Democrats blocking the bill in the Senate, to fund those agencies while the Senate also passed a bipartisan bill to fund the rest of DHS.

DHS is warning it will soon run out of the money, which it has been using to pay salaries and perform other critical functions….

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The bigger issue, though, could be a lack of confidence among Republicans that leaders will pursue another larger, more comprehensive GOP-only reconciliation bill later this year to advance priorities — like supplemental Pentagon funding, and reforms that aim to address fraud in federal programs…..

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Plenty of House Republicans say there is no chance of altering the reconciliation bill at this point.

“I don’t think that there’s going to be any path towards passing anything broader than what’s been teed up in the Senate,” said Rep. Kevin Kiley (I-Calif.), who caucuses with Republicans. “And so I’m going to need to look very closely at what, you know, this will actually do, and I’ve been clear that I want to see meaningful reforms when it comes to immigration enforcement. I think that’s what Americans are asking for, and you know, things like body camera training, enforcement around sensitive places, projections. There’s a warrant for entering homes.”…

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