国会与国土安全部的资金和和解斗争（英）2026

Policy Backgrounder Congress Struggleswith DHS Funding and Congresshas had difficult negotiations topassfunding for theDepartment of Homeland Security (DHS)to end the partialgovernment shutdownand adopt a budget resolution to guide a Trusted Insights for What’s Ahead •At the end of March,the White Houseand Congressional Republican leadersagreed to afundingdeal for DHS that would split off immigration and border security operationsto befundedthrough areconciliationbill--which can pass the Senate with only 51 votes rather •At the end of April, the Senate passed a budget resolutionthat would fundImmigrationand Customs Enforcement (ICE)andCustoms and Border Protection(CBP)for three •After the Administration claimed that its alternative sources of funding for DHS agencieswerescheduled to run out at the start of May, the House ultimately adopted the budgetresolution and passed funding for the rest of DHS until September 30. Republicans will •The bill will likely be narrow, missing the opportunity for changes to the tax code thatcould affect business and also avoiding politically difficult votes before the midterms. Senate Passes Budget Resolution In early April,SenateRepublicansproposeda two-track plan for DHS funding:a first track withfunding for most DHS agencies through the standard appropriations process and a second trackwith funding forICE and CBP through a reconciliation bill, which requiresonlya simple majorityto pass in the Senate.However, Congress did not compete the first track before its Easter Senate Republicans alsoturned to draftingabudget resolution toguide thereconciliationprocess.The White House agreedto keep thebill narrow in scope,simply funding ICE and CBPfor three years.3The Senators alsodid not commit to offsetting the cost of the bill, arguing that Thebudget resolutionultimately adopteddirects theHomeland Security and JudiciaryCommittees in the House and Senate to allocate up to $70 billion over 10 years forICE andCBP.4After a“vote-a-rama” of potential amendments, including some on cost-of-living issues House Struggles toAdopt Resolution and DHS Funding Many HouseRepublicans initially reacted negatively to the two-track plan, with some favoringall DHS funding through reconciliation andadding other legislative priorities to thesecondreconciliation bill.6Somecentrist House GOP Membershad concerns about setting a precedentof using reconciliation to fund agencies that would normally go through the appropriations Towards the end of April, the White House warned that DHS agencieswouldrun out ofcontingency fundingat the beginning of May, ratcheting up pressure on the House.9The firststep for the House was passing a rule to bring the budget resolution for a vote on the Housefloor. House Republicans on the Rules Committeestruggled to fight off dozens of amendments Later that day, the full Houseproceeded to vote on the budget resolution itself. The vote washeld open for five hoursas Republican leadershipdealtwithobjections tounrelatedspy powerand agriculturelegislation, demonstrating the general struggles facing the House Republicanconferenceto pass legislation under such narrow margins.13After resolving these disputes,House Republicans passed the budget resolution by a party-line vote of 215-211.14With Towards Reconciliation With passage of the budget resolution,Congressional Republicansarenow proceedingwithdrafting the second reconciliationbillof the President’s term. This week, the Senate Committeeson the Judiciary and Homeland Security & Government Affairs releasedbill text of their portionsof the reconciliation bill, totaling over $70 billion. The Homeland Security text includes$19.1billion for CBP personnel, $7.5 billion forICE Homeland Security Investigations personnel,and$6billion for border security, technology, and screeningactivities.17The Judiciary text provides Consistent with the earlier agreement with the White House, the fundingincluded in the bill textis allocatedforFY2026andremainsavailable to spend for three years until the end of FY2029.Congress will now spend the rest of Maydebating the reconciliation bill text with the goal of Reconciliation bills, which can be adopted only once per fiscal year,are different than others inthe Senate. While Senate approval of bills normally requires 60 votes to invoke cloture and thusend debate on a bill, reconciliation bills require only 51 votes.Any amendments to the bill aresubject to the Senate Parliamentarian using the “Byrd Rule” to exclude amendments in areas Allthis increases the chances of a narrow bill now. Similar considerations and the desire toavoid politically difficult votes before the midterms make it quite challenging for Congress toadopt a third reconciliation bill that could address other matters suchas tax changes in the About the Authors David Young,President,CED John Gardner,Vice President,Public Policy,CED Luis Bourgeois,Researcher and Writer, Fiscal Policy,CED 1Punchbowl News AM, “Reconciliation 2