Senate GOP is kickstarting budget reconciliation to fund ICE. Here’s how that works.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, is seen at a hearing on April 16. Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images

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Senate Republicans introduced a budget resolution Tuesday to fund immigration enforcement agencies, the first step in a lengthy budgetary process to end a record-breaking partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security.

For months, congressional Democrats have said they will not fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and

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