Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) hopes to schedule floor votes by the end of this month that would pave the way for a GOP-only bill to fund immigration enforcement agencies, according to his spokesman.
Thune plans to have the chamber adopt a budget resolution with instructions for relevant committees to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol — the first step to meet President Donald Trump’s June 1 deadline for Congress to restore base funding to those agencies. Republicans are using the complex budget reconciliation process, which kicks off with a so-called vote-a-rama on a topline resolution.
Democrats ...