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but the process is long and complicated.

Barbara Sprint, NPR News, the Capitol.

For months, congressional Democrats have said they will not fund immigration enforcement agencies unless reforms are implemented, following the deaths of two U.S.

citizens at the hands of agents at protests earlier this year.

Republicans are looking to a budget tool called reconciliation to fund DHS along party lines, bypassing the need for Democratic support.

The budget resolution has an expected final price tag of about $70 billion, which should fund the agencies through President Trump's term.

The president has given a deadline of June 1st for the bill's passage, but the process is long and complicated.

Barbara Sprint, NPR News, the Capitol.

First, it has to pass the House.

They're going to try to tee up a vote for that later this evening.

If it does pass, then of course it has to pass the Senate.

And senators have already left for a two-week recess.

But the calendar aside, there is a political reality here as well for Senate Democrats.

You know, they refuse to vote for anything that funds ICE.

That was their whole premise to begin with, with the shutdown.

So I think it's very unlikely that they would suddenly change course.

Congressional Democrats have refused to fund DHS without implementing restraints on immigration enforcement after federal agents killed two U.S.

citizens earlier this year.

Republicans and Democrats have been trading offers back and forth with little progress.

President Trump acknowledged the ongoing negotiations without much optimism.