NPR: Senate votes to kickstart partisan funding process for ICE. Here's how that works
NPR: Senate Republicans introduced a budget resolution yesterday to fund immigration enforcement agencies. It is the first step in a process to end the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. After federal immigration agents killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis earlier this year, congressional Democrats said they would not fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection until significant reforms are made. Republicans plan to use a budget tool called reconciliation to fund the remaining DHS agencies, allowing them to proceed along party lines without Democratic support. The process can be complicated and lengthy. Here's a look at what's involved.
