House conservatives mount push to codify Trump border policies
Source: The Hill
06/13/26 12:00 PM ET
Hard-line conservatives in the House are mounting an uphill push to codify President Trump’s border policies, demanding a vote by July 4 and warning that policies that have significantly cut down crossings at the southern border could be easily reversed once he leaves office. “The president has given us the most secure border that, literally, this country has ever had. We plan on keeping it, and we in Congress need to do everything we possibly can to ensure that we do keep it, and that means codifying President Trump’s executive orders,” Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) said.
Yet the push comes at a delicate time in the midterm cycle as polls show swing voters were turned off by Trump’s aggressive deportation policies. And even if it passes the House, the bill faces slim odds in the Senate, where it would need support from some Democrats to pass.
The public, confrontational stand from conservatives came during a procedural vote this week to advance a bill to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol through the rest of Trump’s term, the final step to ending the record-setting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown after Democrats had refused to fund immigration enforcement without significant reforms.
It was the kind of measure that seemed like an easy yes for conservatives in the House who have long pushed for stricter border and immigration policies. But members of the House Freedom Caucus initially withheld their votes on the measure, as they huddled with leadership on the House floor. While the ICE and Border Patrol bill provided funding for Trump to carry out his policies for the rest of his term, it did not cement those policies in law.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5922398-house-conservatives-trump-border-bill/
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