The chairs of key Senate committees unveiled legislation Monday that would fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda for the rest of this term, a critical step in Republicans’ push to address the lapse in annual funding for those agencies.
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Judiciary Committees released bill text that combined would greenlight $71.7 billion in spending over the next three years. Most of that money would go to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection.
The homeland security panel plans to vote later this month to advance the bill, its chair Sen.