Chairman Graham Introduces Targeted FY26 Budget Resolution To Unlock Legislation To Keep Border Secure

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, today introduced the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget resolution.

The FY 2026 budget resolution will be the blueprint that unlocks the pathway for a targeted reconciliation bill that will provide funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

Chairman Graham said:

"Republicans are doing something that must be done quickly, and that our Democrat colleagues are trying to prevent us from doing. That something is simple: fully fund Border Patrol and ICE at a time of great threat to the United States.

"With this budget resolution, we are moving forward - not backward - on rational immigration policies that secure our border.

"This resolution will instruct the Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees to create a reconciliation bill that fully funds Border Patrol and ICE for 3.5 years, which will carry us through the Trump presidency.

"The threats to our homeland from radical Islam are only getting more intense. Now is not the time to defund Border Patrol, and now is certainly not the time to put ICE out of business. These men and women have been dealing with the consequences of the over 11 million illegal immigrants that came to the United States during the Biden Administration.

"We are not going to undo the significant progress made under the leadership of President Trump and Republicans in Congress - we are going to improve upon it."

The FY 2026 budget resolution lays the groundwork for a reconciliation bill that will:

• Guard against Democrats' efforts to defund border security
• Keep border crossings at historic lows
• Fund ICE and Border Patrol despite Democrats' outright refusal to do so

WHY CONGRESS MUST ACT QUICKLY TO FUND ICE, BORDER PATROL AND KEEP THE BORDER SECURE

Text of the FY26 Congressional Budget Resolution is available HERE.

View a section-by-section of the FY 2026 Congressional Budget Resolution HERE.

View tables on the FY 2026 Congressional Budget Resolution HERE.

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