Trump rejects Senate-passed Homeland Security funding bill
Source: The Hill
03/27/26 5:09 PM ET
President Trump said Friday he is not on board with the Senate-passed funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) because it does not fully fund the agency, which has been a sticking point with congressional Democrats. Trump, in a phone interview with Fox News, said the bill “wasn’t appropriate” because it does not include appropriations for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
“Well, it wasn’t good. It wasn’t appropriate. Now what they should do is they should terminate the filibuster,” he told the outlet’s Jacqui Heinrich.“In my opinion, you can’t have a bill that’s not going to fund ICE. You can’t have a bill that’s not going to fund any form of law enforcement,” he said. “This whole thing is about the Democrats wanting to have open borders, no ICE, no Border Patrol,” he said.
Later Friday, Trump reiterated to reporters traveling with him to Miami that he wanted the whole agency funded, and he appeared to offer some understanding of both House and Senate leadership’s opposing sides on measures making their way through Congress. “So I understand [Senate Majority Leader] John Thune, and I understand [Speaker] Mike Johnson. … They want to be sure that people aren’t coming into our country like they have for the last four years,” he said.
The Senate passed a DHS funding bill in the early hours of Friday morning that would end the department’s shutdown. It funds most of the department, including the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), but not ICE or CBP.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/5805029-trump-rejects-dhs-funding-bill/
Just illegally "reprogram" the funding from the Barbaric Butcher Bill. There's plenty there already.