House Republicans frustrated by Senate GOP punting ICE, Border Patrol funding
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House Republicans are reportedly disappointed with the Senate GOP’s move to kill the job instead of voting on a budget reconciliation package on immigration enforcement this week.
“Once again the Senate has shown that they don’t even know how to do their job properly,” said Republican Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida. Top.
President Donald Trump is endorsing Donalds for his candidacy for governor of Florida.
“This is very gutless and I am very angry,” Republican Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee said, according to the publication. “They need to work. They didn’t want to work… The Senate needs to call on the leaders there. If the House did that, I would too.”
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The U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, on Thursday, May 21, 2026. (Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“I’m disappointed that this isn’t finished, but I’m hopeful that when they come back they can finish it and we can get it done,” Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb., said, according to The Hill.
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House.
President Donald Trump stated on Truth Social In April, he said he wanted to have a bill on his desk by June 1 that would fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Border Patrol.
The Department of Justice recently announced a “Proliferation Fund,” noting in a press release that “as part of the settlement agreement in President Donald J. Trump v. Internal Revenue Service, the Attorney General established the ‘Proliferation Fund’ to provide a systematic process to hear and redress claims of proliferation and other law enforcement victims.”
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche met with Senate Republicans on Thursday.
Sources told Fox News Digital that more than two dozen Republicans have asked Blanche for answers about what kind of guardrails could be placed on the fund and, specifically, whether it would include those convicted of assault. police officers The riots on January 6, 2021 can be excluded.
There has been debate about including these guardrails in the compromise package, given that the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees the Justice Department, is a key part of the process.
a spokesperson Ministry of Justice He told Fox News Digital that Blanche had a “healthy discussion about the agreement.”
“He made it clear that the Anti-Proliferation Fund announced on Monday has nothing to do with the compromise. Indeed, not a penny of the money the president is seeking for the compromise will go towards anything related to the fund,” the spokesman said. “We will continue to work with the Senate to approve critical reconciliation funds.”
President Donald Trump arrives at the graduation ceremony at Cadet Memorial Field at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, on May 20, 2026. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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In a post on Friday Truth Social, Trump said: “I gave up a lot of money to allow the just announced Proliferation Fund to move forward. For an absolute fortune, I could have settled my case, including the illegal release of my Tax Returns and the equally illegal BREAKING of Mar-a-Lago. Instead, I’m helping others who have been so badly abused by an evil, corrupt, and weaponized Biden Administration finally get JUSTICE!”
Fox News Digital’s Alex Miller and Fox News Channel’s Chad Pergram contributed to this report.
