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ICE And Border Patrol To Be Fully Funded For Rest Of Trump Term Under Reconciliation Deal. Call It A Win And Move On.
By Robert Romano “We’re going to move it as expeditiously as possible. We’re going to do our part and fund those essential functions of the government, and then we’ll do the rest of Homeland Security.” That was House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) agreeing to move a Senate-passed bill to fund everything in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, but only after the Senate sends over a budget reconciliation bill that will fund both of those agencies through the end of President Donald Trump’s term of office that ends after 2028. It might be the only way to get the rest of DHS open again after the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history, now at 62 days and counting. And it might be the best Congressional Republicans can hope to accomplish given the current composition of the House and Senate and current Senate rules that normally require 60 votes to move appropriations bills. In truth, the only concession Congressional Democrats have achieved via their filibuster was that they personally did not have to vote to fund ICE and Border Patrol. That’s it. Now, under the deal that has been struck, those agencies will still be funded, but via the partisan reconciliation bill now under Senate consideration that will only require 50 votes plus the Vice President to pass. And so, Democrats won’t have to vote for it while President Donald Trump is still in office, with funding lasting the next three years. But to guarantee the Senate completes its work on that, the House is withholding support for the main DHS funding bill. Probably a good idea. Take nothing for granted. Otherwise, if the reconciliation plan doesn’t pass, the additional funds for ICE and Border Patrol that were added in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act in 2025 — about $140 billion for additional border protection and immigration enforcement, about $28 billion of the extra funds each year: $10 billion for ICE and $18 billion for Border Patrol — would be drained. Anyone got a better idea? There do not appear to be the votes in the Senate to change long-standing Senate rules requiring 60 votes to pass regular kinds of legislation. So, either put it in reconciliation, or it might not pass at all. Ultimately, this is the consequence of separating DHS funding from the other three minibuses for the current fiscal year. The twelve appropriations bills passing separately is not a constitutional requirement. It’s not even a legal requirement under the Budget Control Act. It’s just a Congressional tradition when both parties were committed to “regular order” that at the end of the day ensured everything would be funded. And it’s not even a “tradition” that is ever followed with any regular basis. Since 1977, Congress has completed all of its appropriations bills — now 12 — only four times prior to Oct. 1: in 1977, 1989, 1995 and 1997. The last time no continuing resolution was used by Congress was in 1997. Otherwise, Congress typically does not get the appropriations process done more than 90 percent of the time, instead resorting to stopgap spending bills in lieu of a massive omnibus, minibuses or year-long continuing resolutions. In practice, if trying to restore “regular order” actually means isolating particular programs and allowing the opposition Democrats to then target for defunding — putting the President’s agenda at risk — then maybe don’t do that again. Congress can just pass the entire budget in one go at its discretion. Better safe than sorry. Now that we’re in this mess, fully funding ICE and Border Patrol for the next three years with the additional funding promised in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act may be the best that can be hoped for. Yes, the procedure is irregular, it gives the Senate disproportionate say in what final shape the legislation takes, but it protects the border and ensures that immigration enforcement has everything it needs to get the job done. Democrats can tell their supporters they didn’t get their hands dirty. Everyone wins. Call it a victory and let’s move on. Robert Romano is the Executive Director of Americans for Limited Government. The post ICE And Border Patrol To Be Fully Funded For Rest Of Trump Term Under Reconciliation Deal. Call It A Win And Move On. appeared first on Daily Torch.
Why Are There Still DACA Republicans? Time To Clean House.
By Robert Romano A group of liberal Republicans in the House are advancing legislation that would be an effective amnesty for millions of illegal aliens, including the so-called “dreamers” that former President Barack Obama originally allowed to stay in the U.S. via his 2012 Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The gang is led by U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) and U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.). The legislation is nothing short of a suicide pact. Specifically, Section 2102 of H.R. 4393, the so-called Dignity Act, provides “Permanent resident status on a conditional basis for certain long-term residents who entered the United States as children.” This would not only effectively legalize DACA, but it would expand it, by extending the amnesty to anyone who arrived prior to Jan. 1, 2021 and were 18 and younger: “the alien has been continuously physically present in the United States since January 1, 2021; … the alien was 18 years of age or younger on the date on which the alien entered the United States and has continuously resided in the United States since such entry…” Under Obama, it was anyone who arrived prior to June 15, 2007 and was 16 and younger: “came to the United States under the age of sixteen; has continuously resided in the United States for a least five years preceding the date of this memorandum and is present in the United States on the date of this memorandum…” So, what started as 800,000 “dreamers” is now proposed to be expanded to more than 2.5 million. This is not what President Donald Trump ran on in 2016, 2020 or 2024, and likely certainly not what he was expecting. After achieving the historic victory in 2024 and seeing some of his worst enemies in Congress removed, voluntarily or otherwise, it is easy to understand why President Trump and his closest advisors would have thought they had “open field running” to advance the Make America Great Again (MAGA) agenda. But as events have unfolded, it is obvious that such optimism has been misplaced. The enemies to a restoration of the America an overwhelming majority of citizens want are still very alive and well and are living inside the Republican Party. What else can one make of the so-called Dignity Act that strips American workers of their dignity? By kicking out one of the three legs of the MAGA Agenda — disenfranchising about 22 million Americans who in polls reported immigration was their top issue, for example, 17 percent said so in an October 2024 Emerson poll, and 84 percent of them said they were voting for Trump — what hope will Republicans have in the 2026 Congressional midterms? Do they want Trump voters to stay home? Do they even want to keep their jobs? Massive losses would be sure to result. A troubling fact about the Salazar-Lawler amnesty bill is that, besides Obama’s DACA, this has all been done before. In 2018 then Speaker of the House Paul Ryan — Mitt Romney’s running mate in 2012 — failed to deliver funding for the border wall and the President’s efforts to secure the border. Ryan instead offered poison pill legislation that coupled wall funding with DACA, precisely the same gambit being tried today. Ryan at that point had already announced his retirement in 2018, demoralizing Republicans and fueling perceptions that the GOP would lose the House majority that year (they did). Ryan hated the MAGA agenda and did everything in his power to undercut it. Now, eight years later, liberal Republicans are doing it again. On reflection, it should be no surprise. For example, Lawler when he ran for Congress in 2022, the establishment GOP spent $10.4 million to get him elected by less than 2,000 votes —$8.8 million alone to oppose Sean Patrick Maloney ($7.5 million from the Ryan-backed Congressional Leadership Fund alone), and another $1.6 million in favor of Lawler — while other possible races went starving. In a real sense, the GOP might have sacrificed about six seats in order to help keep Lawler in place. Salazar was similarly backed in 2022 by the GOP establishment including Congressional Leadership Fund, which spent $1.45 million alone on her race. And what’s the return on investment? Expanded DACA — again. While the Salazar-Lawler bill is the worst of it, there are other efforts afoot from the same cabal of anti-MAGA “Republicans.” Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.) has reintroduced H.R. 5494, the Essential Workers for Economic Advancement Act. The bill expands visas for up to 500,000 alien laborers in the construction, hospitality, and other sectors and proposes a new H-2C visa program for critical jobs that do not require a college degree but are essential to business operations and U.S. economic growth. Up to half a million jobs for people without college degrees, without the debt tied to the university racket. Why are Republicans looking to give those jobs to foreigners and not U.S. citizens? If the issue is training, then focus the mountain of social support money sloshing around toward that function. But giving jobs and a future urban and rural young adults — and those in the growing pockets of poverty in America — seem to be beyond the thinking of the liberal GOP. When Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger were removed from Congress, all MAGA cheered. When Mitt Romney decided to slink away to one of his mansions, everyone heaved a sigh of relief. But those individuals were not the true problem. The problem is an entrenched network of bureaucrats, think tankers, consultants and staff that perpetuate the globalist dogma and operated by faceless, interchangeable cogs that often resembles the Soviet bureaucratic system populated by its nomenklatura class that could only be only be filled with the approval of party committees. Anyone at all familiar with the GOP knows that this is exactly how the process works. Perhaps it’s the reason the GOP has lost so many races and special elections, with zero accountability and no outside thought or actors are allowed, you get the same tired programs — they’re still trying to expand DACA after 14 years! — the same useless mailers, the same weak to non-existent targeting and so forth. Good grief. Why are there still DACA Republicans in 2026? The one benefit of the Salazar-Lawler amnesty bill, besides the fact that it won’t pass, is that it once again puts into stark relief the nature of the problem. A significant core of the President’s own party — in office, not the electorate who loves Trump — opposes his agenda, just as they did in 2018. When Bob Goodlatte’s bill to build the wall without strings attached came up for a vote, the Ryan-wing in the House defeated it. And they’re still at it, deeply entrenched and intent on outlasting President Trump while doing as much damage to his program as they can. Unless and until there is a full house cleaning — of all national, state and local Republican entities — this treachery will continue. Robert Romano is the Executive Director of Americans for Limited Government. The post Why Are There Still DACA Republicans? Time To Clean House. appeared first on Daily Torch.
Why Are There Still DACA Republicans? Time To Clean House.
By Robert Romano A group of liberal Republicans in the House are advancing legislation that would be an effective amnesty for millions of illegal aliens, including the so-called “dreamers” that former President Barack Obama originally allowed to stay in the U.S. via his 2012 Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals (DACA). The gang is led by U.S. Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) and U.S. Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.). The legislation is nothing short of a suicide pact. Specifically, Section 2102 of H.R. 4393, the so-called Dignity Act, provides “Permanent resident status on a conditional basis for certain long-term residents who entered the United States as children.” This would not only effectively legalize DACA, but it would expand it, by extending the amnesty to anyone who arrived prior to Jan. 1, 2021 and were 18 and younger: “the alien has been continuously physically present in the United States since January 1, 2021; … the alien was 18 years of age or younger on the date on which the alien entered the United States and has continuously resided in the United States since such entry…” Under Obama, it was anyone who arrived prior to June 15, 2007 and was 16 and younger: “came to the United States under the age of sixteen; has continuously resided in the United States for a least five years preceding the date of this memorandum and is present in the United States on the date of this memorandum…” So, what started as 800,000 “dreamers” is now proposed to be expanded to more than 2.5 million. This is not what President Donald Trump ran on in 2016, 2020 or 2024, and likely certainly not what he was expecting. After achieving the historic victory in 2024 and seeing some of his worst enemies in Congress removed, voluntarily or otherwise, it is easy to understand why President Trump and his closest advisors would have thought they had “open field running” to advance the Make America Great Again (MAGA) agenda. But as events have unfolded, it is obvious that such optimism has been misplaced. The enemies to a restoration of the America an overwhelming majority of citizens want are still very alive and well and are living inside the Republican Party. What else can one make of the so-called Dignity Act that strips American workers of their dignity? By kicking out one of the three legs of the MAGA Agenda — disenfranchising about 22 million Americans who in polls reported immigration was their top issue, for example, 17 percent said so in an October 2024 Emerson poll, and 84 percent of them said they were voting for Trump — what hope will Republicans have in the 2026 Congressional midterms? Do they want Trump voters to stay home? Do they even want to keep their jobs? Massive losses would be sure to result. A troubling fact about the Salazar-Lawler amnesty bill is that, besides Obama’s DACA, this has all been done before. In 2018 then Speaker of the House Paul Ryan — Mitt Romney’s running mate in 2012 — failed to deliver funding for the border wall and the President’s efforts to secure the border. Ryan instead offered poison pill legislation that coupled wall funding with DACA, precisely the same gambit being tried today. Ryan at that point had already announced his retirement in 2018, demoralizing Republicans and fueling perceptions that the GOP would lose the House majority that year (they did). Ryan hated the MAGA agenda and did everything in his power to undercut it. Now, eight years later, liberal Republicans are doing it again. On reflection, it should be no surprise. For example, Lawler when he ran for Congress in 2022, the establishment GOP spent $10.4 million to get him elected by less than 2,000 votes —$8.8 million alone to oppose Sean Patrick Maloney ($7.5 million from the Ryan-backed Congressional Leadership Fund alone), and another $1.6 million in favor of Lawler — while other possible races went starving. In a real sense, the GOP might have sacrificed about six seats in order to help keep Lawler in place. Salazar was similarly backed in 2022 by the GOP establishment including Congressional Leadership Fund, which spent $1.45 million alone on her race. And what’s the return on investment? Expanded DACA — again. While the Salazar-Lawler bill is the worst of it, there are other efforts afoot from the same cabal of anti-MAGA “Republicans.” Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.) has reintroduced H.R. 5494, the Essential Workers for Economic Advancement Act. The bill expands visas for up to 500,000 alien laborers in the construction, hospitality, and other sectors and proposes a new H-2C visa program for critical jobs that do not require a college degree but are essential to business operations and U.S. economic growth. Up to half a million jobs for people without college degrees, without the debt tied to the university racket. Why are Republicans looking to give those jobs to foreigners and not U.S. citizens? If the issue is training, then focus the mountain of social support money sloshing around toward that function. But giving jobs and a future urban and rural young adults — and those in the growing pockets of poverty in America — seem to be beyond the thinking of the liberal GOP. When Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger were removed from Congress, all MAGA cheered. When Mitt Romney decided to slink away to one of his mansions, everyone heaved a sigh of relief. But those individuals were not the true problem. The problem is an entrenched network of bureaucrats, think tankers, consultants and staff that perpetuate the globalist dogma and operated by faceless, interchangeable cogs that often resembles the Soviet bureaucratic system populated by its nomenklatura class that could only be only be filled with the approval of party committees. Anyone at all familiar with the GOP knows that this is exactly how the process works. Perhaps it’s the reason the GOP has lost so many races and special elections, with zero accountability and no outside thought or actors are allowed, you get the same tired programs — they’re still trying to expand DACA after 14 years! — the same useless mailers, the same weak to non-existent targeting and so forth. Good grief. Why are there still DACA Republicans in 2026? The one benefit of the Salazar-Lawler amnesty bill, besides the fact that it won’t pass, is that it once again puts into stark relief the nature of the problem. A significant core of the President’s own party — in office, not the electorate who loves Trump — opposes his agenda, just as they did in 2018. When Bob Goodlatte’s bill to build the wall without strings attached came up for a vote, the Ryan-wing in the House defeated it. And they’re still at it, deeply entrenched and intent on outlasting President Trump while doing as much damage to his program as they can. Unless and until there is a full house cleaning — of all national, state and local Republican entities — this treachery will continue. Robert Romano is the Executive Director of Americans for Limited Government. The post Why Are There Still DACA Republicans? Time To Clean House. appeared first on Daily Torch.