Fragile relationship with House GOP has Senate Republicans warning 'something needs to change'
Senate Republicans are taking stock of their relationship with the House GOP as they gear up for another key test of their unity across chambers. Dysfunction, miscommunications and wasted time...
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Senate Republicans are taking stock of their relationship with the House GOP as they gear up for another key test of their unity across chambers. Dysfunction, miscommunications and wasted time have dotted the last few months of Republicans' control of Congress, particularly during the longest government shutdown on record. Republicans in the upper chamber aren’t singling out others in the House who should bear responsibility, but they do agree that something needs to change as they plow forward to fund immigration operations for the next few years. TRUMP SAYS HE 'CAN'T STAND' SOME REPUBLICANS FOR REFUSING ONE KEY MOVE FOR HIS AGENDA "I think we all need to get in a room and figure out what's our plan," Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., told Fox News Digital. "And how are we going to get things done for the American people? That has to be the goal, and right now something needs to change." Republicans are readying to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol for the next three and a half years through budget reconciliation, which will require near-perfect unanimity in both chambers to work, given that Democrats are getting cut out of the process. But divisions between the chambers were laid bare during the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown, when House Republicans, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., refused to consider the Senate’s compromise plan to reopen the agency. That decision prolonged the shutdown for nearly a month, and spurred the necessity to turn to reconciliation. It also fostered frustration between the Senate and House at a time when leadership and President Donald Trump are calling for unity. JOHNSON SCRAMBLES AS TRUMP, SENATE REPUBLICANS PRESSURE HOUSE TO FUND DHS Both Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., have thin majorities to work with — Johnson more so than Thune. That reality isn’t something that’s lost on Senate Republicans, particularly on legislation that Democrats won’t support, and is so…