JUST IN: John Thune and Mike Johnson Announce Plan to Fund DHS and Separately Fund ICE and CBP Through Reconcilliation

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Credit: Daniel Torok /White HouseHouse Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune announced plans on Wednesday to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security, including ICE and CBP, for the next three years. The plan to fund the entire department will be on “two parallel tracks” using the appropriations and reconciliation processes, the Congressional leaders announced, noting that the package will “ensure border security and immigration enforcement will be funded for the balance of the Trump Administration and insulated from future attempts by the Democrats to defund those agencies.This comes after President Trump released a statement, saying he’s “working in close conjunction with House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Leader John Thune” to fund ICE and Border Patrol “through a process that doesn’t need Radical Left Democrat votes, and bypasses the Senate Filibuster.”“We are going to work as fast, and as focused, as possible to replenish funding for our Border and ICE Agents, and the Radical Left Democrats won’t be able to stop us. We will not allow them to hurt the families of these Great Patriots by defunding them,” Trump said, setting a June 1 deadline for Congress to pass the bill.Still, he called on Senate Republicans to terminate the filibuster “IMMEDIATELY.”(VIDEO) Tim Burchett Eviscerates Senate RINOs for Refusal to Fund Government and Pass SAVE Act, Calls for Thune to be Replaced as Leader/*! This file is auto-generated */!function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i