{"id":23031,"date":"2026-05-20T14:47:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-panel-backs-party-line-ice-border-patrol-bill-for-floor-action\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:47:25","slug":"senate-panel-backs-party-line-ice-border-patrol-bill-for-floor-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-panel-backs-party-line-ice-border-patrol-bill-for-floor-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate panel backs party-line ICE, Border Patrol bill for floor action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Republicans took the last step Wednesday to tee up their $72 billion party-line immigration enforcement bill for floor action.<\/p>\n<p>Following the 11-10 vote in the Senate Budget Committee, GOP leaders plan to begin debate on the measure either later Wednesday or Thursday. Since lawmakers are scheduled to leave town for a weeklong Memorial Day recess, Republicans need to clear the bill through both chambers by week\u2019s end if they are going to meet the June 1 deadline President Donald Trump set for clearing the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The Budget Committee approved only one of two pieces of the package, since Senate GOP leaders are still revamping the portion of the bill that contains $1 billion for Secret Service security upgrades \u2014 including \u201cenhancements\u201d to the president\u2019s White House ballroom project. <\/p>\n<p>Senate Budget Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said he didn\u2019t know if that funding for the renovation of the East Wing of the White House would ultimately remain in the legislation. &#8220;We&#8217;ll see how that plays out,\u201d he said, arguing that the shooting last month during the White House Correspondents&#8217; Association dinner \u201cshould wake us up a little bit\u201d to the need for a more secure location to host formal events the president attends.<\/p>\n<p>That funding faces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/05\/16\/ballroom-funding-senate-parliamentarian-00924612\" target=\"_blank\">procedural challenges<\/a> under the strict rules of the reconciliation process GOP leaders are using to pass the package at a simple-majority threshold, rather than meet the 60-vote bar under the Senate filibuster. But several Republican senators have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/05\/19\/senate-ballroom-funding-ditch-00928837\" target=\"_blank\">raised objections<\/a> as well. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans took the last step Wednesday to tee up their $72 billion party-line immigration enforcement bill for floor action. Following the 11-10 vote in the Senate Budget Committee, GOP leaders plan to begin debate on the measure either later Wednesday or Thursday. Since lawmakers are scheduled to leave town for a weeklong Memorial Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}