This week on The Hill: Immigration funding takes center stage as June 1 deadline looms
Republicans are pushing the package through a special partisan process known as reconciliation, which would allow them to bypass the Senate filibuster. Senate Republicans are still working through the details of the bill, however, after Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled last week that several elements of the package failed to comply with the Byrd Rule. The rule prohibits provisions that make significant policy changes with only tangential impacts on the budget from being allowed to pass with simple-majority votes.
- ▪Republicans are pushing the package through a special partisan process known as reconciliation, which would allow them to bypass the Senate filibuster.
- ▪Senate Republicans are still working through the details of the bill, however, after Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled last week that several elements of the package failed to comply with the Byrd Rule.
- ▪The rule prohibits provisions that make significant policy changes with only tangential impacts on the budget from being allowed to pass with simple-majority votes.
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Senate This week on The Hill: Immigration funding takes center stage as June 1 deadline looms Comments: by Sudiksha Kochi - 05/18/26 6:00 AM ET Comments: Link copied by Sudiksha Kochi - 05/18/26 6:00 AM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING Both chambers are rushing to finalize a package that would fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol before lawmakers leave for a scheduled recess at the end of the week. Republicans are pushing the package through a special partisan process known as reconciliation, which would allow them to bypass the Senate filibuster.
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