Washington – The “border tsar” by President Donald Trump, Tom Homan, and Budget Director Russell Vought, met with the Senate Republicans on Tuesday afternoon and begged them to send the administration more money to carry out His immigration repression plans.
“Tom Homan said: ‘I am praying for money,” the president of the Senate Budget Committee, Lindsey Graham, RS.C. “Russ Vought said that ‘we are running out of money to [Immigration and Customs Enforcement]. We cannot steal other accounts for longer. ‘”
Graham said the Trump administration is asking for an additional $ 175 billion for the application of immigration, including ICE agents, detention beds and deportation resources.
The price has increased. Before inaugurating Trump, Republicans were discussing $ 80 billion to $ 100 billion for immigration application funds. Last week, Graham said it would be around $ 150 billion. On Tuesday, he embraced the figure of $ 175 billion.
After the meeting, Homan said that his message was “more money, more success.” When asked if he was worried that the administration would run out of money to continue its immigration operations, he replied: “Hopefully, we will not run out of money. The more money we get, the more bad we get out of the street, it is safer America “
The Senate Budget Committee, which is chaired by Graham, is considering a hearing and a vote on a budget resolution on Wednesday and Thursday to begin the “reconciliation” process, in which Republicans can approve funds without democratic votes. It also plans to approve $ 150 billion to expand military spending.
The measure puts the Senate in a collision course with the Chamber, which announced its own marking for Thursday in a different type of budget resolution: one that also includes an important tax review, which the Republicans of the Senate want to deal separately, In another bill.
Republican leaders of the House of Representatives want 218 of the House of Representatives of the Republican Party of 218-215. The Senate wants to break it.
Congress cannot officially start working in the package until both the Chamber and the Senate pass identical budgetary resolutions.
“For my friends at home: we are moving because we have to do it. Wish you all the best. I want ‘a big and beautiful bill’, but I can’t and I will not return to South Carolina and I will justify not supporting the president’s immigration plan, “Graham told journalists.” We are not building a wall, friends. We are hitting a wall .
In particular, the president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, R-LA., And his allies have not yet published the text of the budget resolution while struggling to unify his frantic conference around a mass package. He is trying to convey that the camera is progressing in an attempt to avoid being stuck by the Senate Republicans, who have a larger majority of 53-47.
“We will be implementing that details, probably for tonight,” Johnson told journalists after a republican party meeting on Tuesday. “And we are right at the time in which we must be.”
The representative Chip Roy, a Texas Republican, a member of the Budget Committee, told NBC News “we will see” when asked if they can reach an agreement for Thursday, when the margin is scheduled to take place.
“There are still many variables without response,” he said.
The extreme right -right Caucus Freedom Freedom is skeptical of the strategy of a single Johnson factor, instead proposing its own two track process that would first address immigration money.
“I understand that last week he ran out of detention beds,” Representative Andy Harris, R-MD., President of Freedom Caucus said in an interview. “So we will not be able to repatriate illegal alien criminals in our communities.”
Representative Jason Smith, Republican of Mo., president of the media and tax deed media committee and a vocal defender of the strategy of an invoice, said that the increase in the deficit for his panel under a budget resolution would have to be more than more than $ 4.7 billion to achieve their tax priorities.
“According [the Congressional Budget Office]To make an extension of 10 years of only the tax cuts that expire is more than $ 4.7 billion, ”Smith told reporters, referring to Trump Fiscal Law 2017.
Trump has greatly moved away from the intraparty shock on how to make his agenda, indicating a preference for a bill, but also making it clear that he would be fine when breaking it in two.
Senator Josh Hawley, R-MO., Said Tuesday that it is a mixed message.
“It is not clear to me where the White House is now,” he said after the meeting with Homan and Vought. “The president says he wants a bill. It is not clear to these guys if they want an invoice. I think they want funds. “
