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House Republicans unlock reconciliation process to fund ICE and Border Patrol without Democrats
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The House of Representatives approved a budget blueprint funding immigration enforcement for the rest of President Donald Trump’s term over Democrats’ fierce objections on Wednesday.
Lawmakers voted 215-211 along party lines to take a critical step toward ending the record-breaking Department of Homeland Security funding lapse that began on Feb. 14.
Rep. Kevin Kiley, I-Calif., who caucuses with Republicans, voted present. House Democrats united in opposition to the immigration enforcement measure while every Republican present voted in support.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., could spare just a handful of defections with Republicans’ slim majority.
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ICE agents depart the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building on Feb. 4, 2026, in Minneapolis. (John Moore/Getty Images)
The House’s approval of the Senate-passed budget framework unlocks the partisan budget reconciliation process, which Republicans are using to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection without support from congressional Democrats.
Trump has given Republicans a June 1 deadline to send a budget reconciliation bill to his desk, giving GOP leadership little room for error.
«We have a real sense of urgency about getting this done,» Johnson told Fox News Wednesday.
The successful vote came after more than a dozen GOP lawmakers ranging from conservatives to farm-state and Midwestern Republicans withheld their votes over concerns unrelated to the budget framework.
Republican leadership held the vote open for more than five hours to win over the numerous holdouts and six GOP lawmakers who voted «no» before flipping to «yes.»
Those lawmakers included Reps. Max Miller, R-Ohio, Andy Harris, R-Md., Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., and Michael Cloud, R-Texas.
«This is why they say lawmaking is like watching sausage be made,» Johnson told reporters Wednesday. «That’s what this is, but we’ll get it done.»
The budget resolution teeing up funding for Trump’s immigration agenda is just one piece of Republicans’ DHS funding strategy.
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House GOP leadership has not specified when it plans to take up a Senate-passed measure funding the rest of the department.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., agreed on a two-track approach to fund DHS by steering around Democratic opposition weeks ago. But Johnson has so far declined to put the Senate’s partial DHS bill on the House floor over concerns that it zeroes out funding for immigration enforcement.
Johnson said earlier this week that some «modifications» to the measure may be necessary but has not gone into detail about specific changes.
The White House on Tuesday sent Hill offices an internal memo, obtained by Fox News Digital, urging passage of the Senate’s partial DHS bill, raising the pressure on Johnson to act.
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., successfully steered a budget blueprint through the House of Representatives teeing up three years of funding for President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda on Wednesday. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg)
Many rank-and-file House Republicans want ICE and the Border Patrol funded before the rest of the department, which could mean a delay for several more weeks.
«I think that there’s a serious problem with the bill in that it zeroes out, ICE and CBP,» Rep. Eric Burlison, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told Fox News. «It’s one thing to not do the funding, but it’s a whole other thing to put zeros in the bill.»
«I know that the speaker’s working on making sure that we have all the assurances and even maybe the cash in hand in terms of reconciliation being wrapped up, finalized before we take the 95% of the rest of Homeland Security,» House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, said.
Meanwhile, the White House is warning that it will be short on funds to pay the department’s hundreds of thousands of employees beginning in May.
«If this funding is exhausted, the Administration will be unable to pay DHS personnel beginning in May, which will once again unleash havoc on air travel, leave critical law enforcement officers—including our brave Secret Service agents—and the Coast Guard without paychecks, and jeopardize national security,» the White House memo published Tuesday states.
House Republicans’ approval of the Senate blueprint also effectively shuts the door on adding other GOP priorities to the budget package. Some GOP lawmakers had floated adding affordability-focused provisions, defense supplemental funding and the SAVE America Act to the bill.
House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, said Wednesday that the House of Representatives is unlikely to pass the Senate’s partial DHS bill until more progress is made toward funding immigration enforcement. (Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg)
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GOP leadership had argued for weeks that a larger bill risked derailing the budget reconciliation process.
«We’re focused on funding Homeland Security and stopping the Democrat shutdown and, in particular, using reconciliation to fund ICE and CBP because Democrats refused to fund it,» Arrington said. «Everything else is not germane to this conversation.»
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Trump EPA chief vows he won’t take ‘morality lessons’ from Dem senator after heated clash
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., traded barbs with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin in a fiery Senate hearing Wednesday over cost-benefit analysis of coal plants and whether President Trump’s EPA had done enough to weigh whether hospital bills and insurance claims should factor into the calculus.
The heated back-and-forth left Zeldin taking a thinly-veiled dig at Whitehouse long after the Democratic environmentalist had concluded his line of questioning.
«We just want to stick to the truth,» Zeldin said.
«We want to stick to the science. If you don’t agree with them, you don’t follow their logic, then they’ll want to vilify you … and I’m not going to take morality lessons from people who join all-White country clubs,» Zeldin added.
He was referring to reports of Whitehouse’s family membership at Bailey’s Beach Club, a beach club formerly known as Spouting Rock Beach Association.
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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin attends a meeting with President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 13, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
«I think the people who are running the place are still working on that, and I’m sorry it hasn’t happened yet,» Whitehouse said in 2017, referring to allowing minority members. «It’s a long tradition in Rhode Island, and there are many of them. And we just need to work our way through the issues.»
The interaction comes as lawmakers weigh President Donald Trump’s 2027 budget request for the EPA, a framework that has alarmed Democrats for its proposed 50% reduction to agency funding.
Zeldin’s clash with Whitehouse also underscores sharp divisions between the administration and Democrats in Congress over what threat, if any, climate change poses and what resources the U.S. should devote to combating it.
Whitehouse, who panned the proposed budget, argued that Zeldin was ignoring secondary costs brought on by fossil fuels.
«One plant in Michigan has already cost Michiganders $600 million in excess health costs. That is money out of consumers’ pockets and into the pockets of your fossil fuel polluters, Trump’s big donors. Are you even tracking the consumer costs of those coal plants?» Whitehouse asked Zeldin.
«We’re going to get to talk about math?» Zeldin replied. «Oh, this is great; I don’t even know where to start.»
«Are you even tracking the consumer costs of those coal plants?» Whitehouse asked again. «Answer that question: Are you even tracking the consumer costs of those coal plants?»
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Former Rep. Lee Zeldin, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for EPA administrator, speaks during his Senate Environment and Public Works confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 16, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Zeldin began replying that the EPA did, in fact, track consumer costs of energy but was cut off.
«Where are you tracking the consumer costs of those coal plants?» Whitehouse interjected.
Zeldin, setting aside the matter of tracking, turned to confront Whitehouse’s underlying argument about the cost-benefit of coal across the country.
«Are you kidding me? Coal plants even staying open – you think that the math is that it’s better for West Virginia if you close down their coal plants and put these people out of work and tell them to learn how to code?» Zeldin said.
«According to you, in your mind, that’s saving West Virginia? Is it saving them on energy access? Is it saving them on jobs?» Zeldin added.
Whitehouse, running out of his allotted time, closed his line of questioning by proposing that Trump’s administration stood to gain from energy-aligned donors.
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., conducts the Senate Budget Committee hearing titled «The Default on America Act: Blackmail, Brinkmanship, and Billionaire Backroom Deals» in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on May 4, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc)
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«You’re raising costs on purpose because the money that you get when you raise costs from consumers goes to Trump’s big fossil fuel donors,» Whitehouse said.
The EPA was given roughly $8.82 billion in the 2026 fiscal year. For 2027, Trump has requested just $4.2B for 2027, a drop that would represent a 52% decrease year over year.
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Honduras y Canadá refuerzan su relación bilateral con agenda centrada en comercio, desarrollo económico y gobernanza
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El presidente de Honduras, Nasry Asfura, sostuvo un encuentro oficial con la embajadora de Canadá en Costa Rica y concurrente para Honduras, Ioanna Sahas Martin, como parte de una agenda orientada a fortalecer los vínculos diplomáticos y ampliar la cooperación entre ambos países.
La reunión, según información oficial, se enmarca en los esfuerzos por consolidar una relación bilateral que ha ganado relevancia en los últimos años, especialmente en áreas clave como el comercio, el desarrollo económico y la gobernanza institucional.
Durante el encuentro, ambas autoridades abordaron oportunidades para impulsar inversiones, generar empleo y promover iniciativas que contribuyan al crecimiento sostenible de Honduras.
En ese sentido, el Gobierno hondureño destacó la importancia de la cooperación internacional como herramienta para dinamizar la economía y mejorar las condiciones de vida de la población.
“El presidente sostuvo una reunión en el marco de una agenda orientada a seguir fortaleciendo la relación bilateral entre ambos países”, se indicó, subrayando el interés mutuo en ampliar los espacios de colaboración.
La relación entre Honduras y Canadá se ha caracterizado por una cooperación constante en diversos ámbitos, incluyendo programas de desarrollo, fortalecimiento institucional y apoyo a sectores productivos.
En este contexto, el diálogo sostenido entre ambas naciones busca abrir nuevas oportunidades en áreas estratégicas que permitan diversificar la economía hondureña.
Uno de los puntos centrales de la reunión fue el impulso al comercio bilateral, considerado un pilar clave para el crecimiento económico. Las autoridades coincidieron en la necesidad de facilitar el intercambio comercial, atraer inversión extranjera y generar condiciones favorables para el desarrollo empresarial.
Además, se discutieron temas relacionados con la gobernanza, un aspecto fundamental para fortalecer las instituciones democráticas y mejorar la transparencia en la gestión pública.
La cooperación en este ámbito ha sido una constante en la relación entre ambos países, con programas orientados a modernizar procesos y promover buenas prácticas.
El encuentro también adquiere relevancia en el contexto de la conmemoración de los 65 años de relaciones diplomáticas entre Honduras y Canadá, que se celebrarán en 2026. Esta fecha representa un hito en una alianza que, según autoridades, se ha construido sobre principios de desarrollo, igualdad de oportunidades y beneficios compartidos.
“Durante el encuentro se abordaron oportunidades de cooperación en comercio, desarrollo económico y gobernanza, en una relación que se proyecta hacia la conmemoración de sus 65 años en 2026”, destacaron fuentes oficiales.
Analistas consideran que este tipo de reuniones refuerzan la posición de Honduras en el ámbito internacional, al consolidar vínculos con socios estratégicos que pueden contribuir al crecimiento económico y a la estabilidad institucional.
En un escenario global marcado por desafíos económicos y sociales, la cooperación internacional se presenta como un elemento clave para impulsar el desarrollo. En este sentido, la relación con Canadá representa una oportunidad para fortalecer sectores productivos, mejorar la competitividad y generar empleo.
Asimismo, la agenda bilateral refleja el interés de ambas naciones en trabajar de manera conjunta para enfrentar retos comunes, promoviendo iniciativas que beneficien a sus poblaciones.
El acercamiento entre Honduras y Canadá se mantiene como un componente relevante dentro de la política exterior hondureña, con el objetivo de consolidar alianzas que contribuyan al desarrollo sostenible y a la integración económica.
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