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to run out of that new money.

So the House had to act.

Well, Johnson finally reached that deal with the more conservative members of his conference who were holding out to fund all of DHS.

Republicans had been working on a special partisan legislative vehicle known as Reconciliation.

That bill would include money for immigration enforcement for the rest of President Trump's term.

And Johnson sided with those conservative members initially calling the Senate-passed DHS bill a joke.

but he reversed course as reconciliation dragged on.

Now he says that that process is moving.

Republicans could also approve that additional funding.

Yeah, exactly.

Because Republicans have such tight margins in both chambers, they still need votes from Democrats.

And as you may recall, DHS was on track to be part of this massive bipartisan spending bill at the start of the year.

But the January deaths of two U.S.

citizens at the hands of officers for DHS changed all of that.

So Democrats pulled their support.

They began pushing for a new deal to revamp the way these agents do their jobs, like banning face masks.

But Republicans refused, and that triggered this shutdown that began February 14th.

Well, those divisions are in a great position, thanks to a massive tax and spending plan known as the One Big Beautiful Bill that passed last year.

It directed $75 billion towards ICE.

And this ongoing reconciliation process could get approved by June.