Senate Republicans voted early Thursday morning to approve a budget measure to unlock the path to fund ICE and Border Patrol without any Democratic votes.

The Senate voted Tuesday to take up a budget resolution that is designed to provide enough funding for immigration enforcement agencies through the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term. On a strictly party-line vote of 52-46,

U.S. Senate ⁠Republicans will ​move forward this ‌week on a ‌budget ⁠blueprint ⁠calling for new funding for ​the Immigration and ​Customs Enforcement and Customs ⁠and ⁠Border Protection ⁠agencies for ​the next three years,

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Rather disingenuously, Senate Majority Leader John Thune

The Senate adopted a budget resolution that would fund ICE and Border Patrol, marking the first step to end the partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security. NewsNation’s Hena Doba has

The budget resolution, which passed 50-48, is a bid to circumvent the Democratic filibuster and fund immigration enforcement agencies and reopen the DHS.

Senate Republicans green-lit their party-line plan early Thursday morning to send tens of billions of dollars to immigration enforcement agencies in the coming years. Senators voted 50-48 to adopt a budget blueprint for legislation that could fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement,

Their budget resolution involves a maneuver called "Reconciliation", which is to get their plan passed with a simple majority, instead of the usual 60 votes needed.