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House and Senate Republicans are advancing a budget reconciliation bill to fund ICE and Border Patrol for up to three and a half years without any Democratic support, bypassing the normal appropriations process amid a DHS shutdown that began in February 2026 after federal agents fatally shot two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis. The move, which passed the Senate 50-48 with two Republican defections, would allocate up to $140 billion for immigration enforcement — including detention expansion, border wall construction, and 10,000 new ICE officers — even as border crossings have fallen to their lowest levels since 1970.