Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) mentioned Monday {that a} border safety invoice must be “the primary order of enterprise within the Senate Funds Committee.”
“Stephen Miller was spot on when he said that the Senate and House should first pass a border security bill through the budget reconciliation process,” Graham mentioned in a submit on the social platform X, referring to President-elect Trump’s decide for his deputy chief of employees for coverage.
“While I support spending restrictions and tax cuts, my top priority – and the first order of business in the Senate Budget Committee – is to secure a broken border,” the incoming chief of the Funds Committee added. “The bill will be transformational, it will be paid for, and it will go first.”
Graham’s Monday submit got here in response to an Axios report about feedback by Miller in a Fox Information look the day earlier than. Within the look, Miller urged congressional Republicans to move a border funding bundle that includes a “historic” improve in border patrol brokers, funding for navy operations and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) wants.
Miller mentioned Sunday that immigration management and border safety have been mentioned by some Republicans “for decades.”
“But with Donald Trump, this is something that is going to happen. It will be the most important and significant … domestic policy achievement in half a century,” he mentioned.
The day after the election, Graham mentioned upon the possibility Republicans stored “the House, we will hit the ground running on budget reconciliation — the best vehicle to jump start the economy and help secure the border.”
Underneath Senate particular finances reconciliation guidelines, the occasion controlling each the Home and Senate can transfer laws via the higher chamber by backing it with a easy majority of senators quite than the traditional 60 votes wanted to move contentious laws.
