Washington — Senate Democrats are threatening to block a package to fund major parts of the government this week, including the Department of Homeland Security, following the deadly shooting of a man by federal agents in Minneapolis.
But a partial government shutdown would likely have little impact on the administration's ongoing immigration enforcement operations, since the relevant DHS agencies received a massive funding infusion in President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act last year. The immigration enforcement agencies would have the funds to continue operating uninterrupted, even if other parts of the government shut down. DHS received an influx of around $165 billion in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act last year, going well beyond the annual funding the agency regularly receives. The bill provided $75 billion for ICE and $65 billion for CBP, an enormous infusion of money for the agencies responsible for implementing the administration's mass deportation effort.
The DHS bill being debated now would provide $64.4 billion in discretionary funding for the fiscal year, including $10 billion for ICE. Democratic appropriators acknowledged before the Minneapolis shooting that failing to pass new funding would not hamper the administration's immigration efforts.
The office of Sen. Patty Murray, the top Democratic appropriator in the Senate, said in a bill summary released last week that "Congress' failure to pass a Homeland Security appropriations bill would not shut down ICE or CBP," given the OBBBA funds.
The summary noted that a lapse in funding "would instead allow ICE and CBP to continue their operations using OBBBA funds — but without any of the constraints imposed by an enacted funding bill — while FEMA, TSA, CISA, Coast Guard, and other DHS components are shuttered, or working without pay."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ice-and-cbp-would-keep-operating-during-shutdown-despite-dhs-funding-fight/ar-AA1V6mlV?ocid=BingNewsSerp
= new reply since forum marked as read