Senate GOP is kickstarting budget reconciliation to fund ICE. Here’s how that works.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, is seen at a hearing on April 16.

After a historic partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, Congressional Republicans are looking to a budgetary tool called reconciliation which could enable them to fund immigration enforcement agencies without any Democratic support.

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