House Republicans are divided over whether to accept a narrow Senate reconciliation bill to fund border enforcement or risk derailing it in pursuit of broader legislation.
The Senate on Tuesday moved forward with a plan to provide up to $70 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, using a party-line process known as reconciliation that bypasses the 60-vote filibuster threshold. House Republicans are now trying to decide if they will follow in lockstep.
“Now we’re in a position where we’re having to look at this whole reconciliation thing and whether it’s going to be a skinny reconciliation, which is really frustrating to a lot of my colleagues and myself as well, very frustrating, because this is a tool that we as a majority should be able to utilize,” Rep. Mark Harris (R-NC) told the Washington Examiner.
“To burn, if you will, reconciliation on simply funding all of Department
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