Washington – the chairman of the US budget committee warned on Tuesday that immigration and border security are low, and called Republicans from home to go with a plan that would provide hundreds of billions of expenses before the Congress took changes in tax regulations this year.
Senator Lindsey Graham said after briefing with closed doors with Border Wasting Toman and the Director of the White House budget Russ that two “begged” legislators to quickly provide more funds for border security.
A republican from southern Carolina said that instead of devoting time to negotiating an agreement between GOP legislators on a mass package, which would include border security, energy policy, defense financing and tax law, the congress should instead pass three of these initiatives and leave the debate about the debate on the debate Tax topic for later.
“I still want one, large, beautiful bill, but I can’t – after hearing what I heard today – not to act,” said Graham. “After this briefing, if the Republican Party cannot transfer the money of Trump’s administration to do all the things they have to do so that we are safe, we do not have to blame anyone but ourselves, because we have such ability by reconciliation. And I just want to do it sooner than later. “
Graham said Vought told senators at a private meeting that immigration and customs enforcement quickly finish money.
Republicans in the Congress are debating from the elections whether to transfer the main changes to politics through one or two bills. And although it would usually be an internal discussion, the Chamber and the Senate must get to the same side if they want to operate the reconciliation process.
Otherwise, GOP will have to negotiate with democrats or completely scrap his suggestions.
First step
The first step in the tedious process requires that the Chamber and the Senate agree with the budget resolution, which includes reconciliation instructions for all committees that will take part in the package development.
Graham published the Senate’s budget resolution last week. The committee plans to mark it on Wednesday and Thursday before he votes for sending proposals to the Senate floor.
The House budget committee has a debate and vote on its own budget this week, although the panel has not yet published a resolution on Tuesday afternoon.
Usually, the Chamber and the Senate can develop their separate bills as they want, and then go to the conference to develop differences. But because GOP leaders want to operate the complicated, strict process of reconciliation of the budget to introduce their changes, they must agree whether it will be one bill in budget resolution.
Graham’s budget resolution would establish a congress to first adopt a bill on hundreds of billions of dollars for the Pentagon and Internal Security Department, as well as some energy policies.
The house budget resolution is expected to contain reconciliation instructions that would transfer all basic policy goals – border security, defense, energy and tax – under one package.
The Republicans of the Chamber and Senate did not agree to the budget resolution, which has one set of reconciliation instructions, would mean that they cannot operate this process to circumvent the 60-voice filibuster of the Senate, and therefore cannot get any bills on the desk of President Donald Trump.
Graham said during press conference That he still hopes that Congress can go through one gigantic package, but believes that legislators must obtain ice, true and protection of borders and the Fundamental Defense Department, which, as they think, need as soon as possible.
“Everything I can say to my colleagues: whatever you have to do to get to one beautiful bill, do it, do it now, you have my blessing, you have my support,” said Graham. “But if we can’t do it quickly, we must go to B.”
Graham said that the Republicans of the Senate undertook to pay for the total cost of the Border Security Reconstruction Package, “taking money from other parts of the government, which are less worthy.”
“We’ll spend money for four years. It is enough to introduce the Trump immigration program on the security side for four years and we will pay for it in four years, “said Graham.
The leader of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, rs.d., said that he perceived the work of his chamber on the budget resolution as “complementing home”.
“Now they are on a different track, but that’s why we have this process,” said Thune. “We wonder how to get to the finish line, and the only thing that we are all interested in and concerned is to unlock this process, start work and get the result.”
Committees divided financing
Graham’s budget resolution would give the Armed Services Committee around $ 150 billion of financing, while trade, learning and transport would be able to spend $ 20 billion; The environment and public works would have the highest line of $ 1 billion; Internal security and government matters would receive a level of financing in the amount of $ 175 billion; And the judiciary would have to allocate expenses of $ 175 billion.
The financing of GOP legislators plans to introduce reconciliation bills would be an addition to the funds that the Congress provides annual funds in annual funds.
The Congress approved $ 61.8 billion of discretionary funds for the Internal Security Department and $ 825 billion for the Department of Defense in the last full annual expenses bills that legislators adopted in March 2024.
The level of DHS expenditure was divided into several agencies, including ICE, which received $ 9.6 billion, and CBP, which received $ 19.6 billion. According to the financing levels Summary from Republicans from home.
Congress was to pass The latest round of annual expenses bills Before the start of the tax year on October 1, but instead I decided to rely on two accounts for expenses for the extension of these financing provisions until March 14.
More officers, space to stop
Homan, whom Trump used to carry out the promise of mass deportation campaigns, admitted that funding from Congress is the key to enforcing immigration law, from employing more officers to an additional stop space.
Registration of mass removal of millions of people in the country without appropriate legal status is tough. ICE has 21,000 staff staff, with 7,700 officers devoted to moving and enforcement operations.
Another issue is the space to stop. Ice is financed to keep About 41,500 detention beds. ICE began issuing applications for information on increasing the stop capacity, According to government contractual data.
In addition, the president ordered the Defense Department to start keeping up to 30,000 migrants in the Ganantanamo bay.
Ariana Figueroa contributed to this report.
Last updated 17:05, February 11, 2025
