It’s officially appropriations season with the release of President Donald Trump’s FY2027 budget proposal. But with the Department of Homeland Security still shut down and without FY2026 funding, things are not looking good.
Republicans are now planning to do another party-line reconciliation bill to boost funding for ICE and CBP. That will take up a lot of valuable floor time and energy on Capitol Hill while appropriators race to both start and complete FY2027 work.