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Lawmaker says budget reconciliation was used to fund ICE and CBP after Democrats opposed regular appropriations
Summary
A lawmaker argued that Congress used budget reconciliation to break obstruction and secure emergency funding for homeland-security agencies including ICE and CBP, saying Democrats declined to support those funding measures through regular appropriations.
A lawmaker said lawmakers turned to budget reconciliation to "break that stronghold and that obstruction" and to secure funding for homeland-security functions, specifically naming Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). "That's why we used budget reconciliation to break that stronghold and that obstruction, to open up homeland security, to fund ICE and CBP," the lawmaker said.
The speaker framed reconciliation as a tool for emergency funding and to reopen the government, saying no Democrats supported regular appropriations for those agencies: "Couldn't get a single Democrat vote, by the way, to fund ICE and CBP." The lawmaker repeated that reconciliation was being used "for emergency funding" and "to open up the government." No formal motion or vote was recorded in the provided transcript excerpts.
The remarks focused on the strategy of using reconciliation — a parliamentary vehicle that can bypass a filibuster in the Senate under certain conditions — to advance funding when the speaker described regular-appropriations routes as blocked. The transcript does not specify which bill or reconciliation package was under discussion, nor does it identify the lawmaker by name. There is no recorded response in the excerpt from other members or an explicit procedural next step in the supplied segments.
