JUST IN: John Thune and Mike Johnson Announce Plan to Fund DHS and Separately Fund ICE and CBP Through Reconcilliation
House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced plans on Wednesday to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security, including ICE and CBP, for the next three years.
The plan to fund the entire department will be on “two parallel tracks” using the appropriations and reconciliation processes, the Congressional leaders announced, noting that the package will “ensure border security and immigration enforcement will be funded for the balance of the Trump Administration and insulated from future attempts by the Democrats to defund those agencies.
This comes after President Trump released a statement, saying he’s “working in close conjunction with House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Leader John Thune” to fund ICE and Border Patrol “through a process that doesn’t need Radical Left Democrat votes, and bypasses the Senate Filibuster.”
“We are going to work as fast, and as focused, as possible to replenish funding for our Border and ICE Agents, and the Radical Left Democrats won’t be able to stop us. We will not allow them to hurt the families of these Great Patriots by defunding them,” Trump said, setting a June 1 deadline for Congress to pass the bill.
Still, he called on Senate Republicans to terminate the filibuster “IMMEDIATELY.”
The process that was announced will pass the bipartisan Senate-backed bill that funded DHS but excluded funding for ICE and CBP, which the House previously blocked. And through reconciliation, the Senate can pass three years of ICE and CBP funding with a simple majority, rather than the 60-vote threshold required by the filibuster.
"In following this two-track approach, the Republican Congress will fully reopen the Department, make sure all federal workers are paid, and specifically fund immigration enforcement and border security for the next three years so that those law-enforcement activities can continue uninhibited. In return, Democrats will once again demonstrate to the American people their support for open borders and keeping criminal illegal immigrants in America," the statement reads.
Full statement below:
"We appreciate and share the President's determination to once and for all bring an end to the Democrat DHS shutdown.
"In the coming days, Republicans in the Senate and House will be following through on the President's directive by fully funding the entire Department of Homeland Security on two parallel tracks: through the appropriations process and through the reconciliation process.
"We appreciate that Senator Graham and the Senate Budget Committee have already initiated the process of developing a budget resolution that will ensure border security and immigration enforcement will be funded for the balance of the Trump Administration and insulated from future attempts by the Democrats to defund those agencies.
"We operated under a belief that while our country is in the midst of an international armed conflict, Democrats might finally come to their senses and understand that defunding our homeland security agencies is beyond reckless and very dangerous. While we hoped they would accept the 60-day CR to fund the Department entirely so that bipartisan negotiations could continue, it is now abundantly clear that Democrats place allegiance to their radical left-wing base above all else — including their own power of the purse - which means open borders and protecting criminal illegal aliens. That is not acceptable to Republicans in Congress, nor is it to the American people. We cannot allow Democrats to any longer put the safety of the American public at risk through their open border policies, so we are taking that off the table.
"In following this two-track approach, the Republican Congress will fully reopen the Department, make sure all federal workers are paid, and specifically fund immigration enforcement and border security for the next three years so that those law-enforcement activities can continue uninhibited. In return, Democrats will once again demonstrate to the American people their support for open borders and keeping criminal illegal immigrants in America."
NEW -- THUNE/JOHNSON STATEMENT.
House will pass the Senate bill -- remember, the bill that JOHNSON and House Republicans dumped all over for a week.
Then they want *3 years* of ICE/CBP funding in reconciliation. pic.twitter.com/WP1cF11APg
— Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) April 1, 2026
This is a developing story.
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