{"id":27647,"date":"2026-04-24T08:23:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=27647"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:23:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:23:44","slug":"house-to-take-up-gop-budget-resolution-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/?p=27647","title":{"rendered":"House to Take Up GOP Budget Resolution Next Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n              <span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time:<\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 After six hours of failed amendment votes, the U.S. Senate adopted Republicans\u2019 budget resolution to fund immigration enforcement in a 50-48 vote early Thursday.\n<\/p>\n<h4>Who is praying on the wall?<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Rand Paul, R-Ky., voted with all Democrats against the legislation.\n<\/p>\n<p>The budget resolution directs the congressional Judiciary and Homeland Security committees to craft a budget reconciliation bill \u2013 a filibuster-proof vehicle for adjusting federal spending \u2013 that pledges up to $140 billion for ICE and U.S. Border Patrol over the next 3.5 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>The House, however, won\u2019t take up the measure until at least Monday, and some House Republicans want to expand the scope of the budget resolution beyond immigration enforcement funding.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it comes over and that\u2019s what I\u2019m confronted with, then I will vote for it \u2013 reluctantly, because they were missing a huge opportunity to get a lot of good stuff done,\u201d Rep. Eric Burlison, R-Mo., told reporters Thursday. \u201cWe\u2019re wasting a reconciliation bill.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Reconciliation is a last-ditch effort by Republicans to finish the fiscal year 2026 appropriations process and reopen the Department of Homeland Security, which has remained shuttered for 69 days.\n<\/p>\n<p>A hybrid Homeland Security appropriations bill, which includes annual funds for all DHS agencies except ICE and CBP, has already passed the Senate and awaits a House vote.\n<\/p>\n<p>But House Republicans are waiting to approve it until they see progress on a budget reconciliation bill ensuring funding for those agencies, which begins with the budget resolution.\n<\/p>\n<p>If Republicans try to attach other policy riders to the bill, the path to reopening DHS could get even rockier and Republicans could miss President Donald Trump\u2019s June 1 deadline for the reconciliation bill to reach his desk.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot allow Democrats to hold DHS funding hostage when our national security is on the line,\u201d Rep. Cory Mills, R-Fla., posted on X Thursday. \u201cSenate Republicans just locked in a $70 billion plan to fund ICE and Border Patrol and end the DHS shutdown, now it\u2019s on the House to act. We MUST get this done.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<h4>Pray for Congress to act with clarity and courage\u2014and share this with fellow intercessors.<\/h4>\n<p><em>This article was originally published at The Center Square. Photo Credit: Office of Speaker Mike Johnson.<\/em><br \/>\n&#13;\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes (The Center Square) \u2013 After six hours of failed amendment votes, the U.S. Senate adopted Republicans\u2019 budget resolution to fund immigration enforcement in a 50-48 vote early Thursday. Who is praying on the wall? \u00a0 U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Rand Paul, R-Ky., voted with all Democrats against the legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[6545,1318,695,4773,561],"class_list":{"0":"post-27647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-prayer","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-gop","10":"tag-house","11":"tag-resolution","12":"tag-week"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblelon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}