House conservatives rage against Senate DHS shutdown deal
House conservatives are ripping into a Senate-passed deal that would end the 42-day Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown, citing concerns that the bill fails to fund President Donald Trump’s...
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House conservatives are ripping into a Senate-passed deal that would end the 42-day Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown, citing concerns that the bill fails to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown . The House Freedom Caucus said Friday it will withhold its support for the DHS funding measure until Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are given full-year appropriations. The conservative group also wants voter ID requirements added to the bill. "We can't believe that the Senate abdicated its responsibility this morning of not funding the child sex trafficking investigation division of ICE, that they didn't fund the Border Patrol," HFC chairman Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., told reporters. "The only thing we're going to support is adding that funding into the bill, adding voter ID, sending it back to the Senate, make them come back in and do their work." "The bottom line is … this deal is bad for America," Harris continued. TWO DOZEN HOUSE REPUBLICANS GO TO WAR WITH SENATE GOP OVER SAVE AMERICA ACT The Senate-passed product provided funding for all of DHS minus ICE and parts of the Border Patrol, enraging some conservatives who viewed the agreement as a capitulation to Democrats. "Republicans must also make sure this never happens again," Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., told Fox News Digital, adding that he opposed the funding deal. The measure, however, did not include a bevy of immigration reforms demanded by Democrats — a notable win for Republicans. Scott and other Senate Republicans have teased a forthcoming budget package that would give an infusion to Trump’s immigration agenda. The conservative opposition to the Senate’s spending agreement comes as House GOP leadership has also not committed to passing the funding measure. "We just have the number one main objective to see that we can get the entire Department of Homeland Security properly funded," House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., told Fox N…