Eric McDaniel

The pending budget bill for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection would give the agencies tens of billions of dollars to spend over the next three years.

That's on top of billions in supplemental funding they received last summer.

But Congress's annual funding process is typically a way to exercise oversight into how an agency is conducting its work.

ICE and CBP could soon be insulated from that pressure.

Still, Congress has other tools, like forcing officials to testify and coming out of the longest agency shutdown in U.S.

government history.

Three years of funding will give stability to a central pillar of Trump's domestic agenda, mass deportation.

Eric McDaniel, NPR News, Washington.

Good morning, good morning.

No, definitely not.

Generally, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, ICE, and Customs and Border Protection are funded on the same cycle as everything else, October through September.

But because of the fight over how ICE and Border Patrol have conducted Trump's mass deportation agenda, federal agents killed two citizens in Minnesota earlier this year, Democrats blocked their annual funding as they pushed for reforms.

These agencies weren't hurting for cash.

Trump's one big, beautiful bill dedicated more than $100 billion toward the teams last year.

But they have been without their usual appropriated money since February.

So Republicans have decided, let's just put this issue to rest.

We have the votes to end this fight through Trump's term in the White House.

Well, think of it this way.

If all the funding is already in the bank, Congress has one fewer tool in their box of checks and balances to oversee how immigration enforcement is conducted in the U.S.

Democrats have blocked money in hopes of making ICE and CBP agents wear body cameras and limit their use of face coverings.