GOP Immigration Budget Bill Enters Crunch Time: BGOV Budget

May 21, 2026, 10:03 AM UTC

Make or Break for Reconciliation 2.0

It’s make or break for Republicans as they race to pass their party-line bill giving tens of billions of dollars to carry out President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda.

Senators could start a marathon series of amendment votes as soon as today for what could be Republicans’ last major piece of legislation before the midterm elections.

Democrats will get the chance to force a flurry of politically uncomfortable amendment votes during the vote-a-rama, including votes on affordability, Trump’s ballroom construction project, and the Department of Justice’s controversial “Anti-Weaponization Fund.”

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