The U.S. House of Representatives voted 215-211 along party lines Wednesday night to adopt a budget resolution that clears the way for tens of billions of dollars in additional funding for immigration enforcement, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol. The vote unlocks the budget reconciliation process, which Republicans plan to use to fund those agencies through the remainder of President Donald Trump's term. California independent Rep. Kevin Kiley, formerly a Republican, voted present.

The resolution had already passed the Senate earlier this month and does not require Trump's signature. House Speaker Mike Johnson has separately declined to bring a Senate-passed government funding bill to the House floor for a vote — a bill that, combined with the budget resolution, is expected to end the ongoing shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security that began in mid-February.

During floor debate, House Budget Committee ranking member Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pa., argued that lawmakers should impose constraints on immigration agents following the shooting deaths of two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis earlier this year. "I think the vast majority of the American people agree with me that we need to have a secure border, but that we cannot have any agency of our government carrying out killings on our streets," Boyle said. Republicans removed ICE and Border Patrol from standard law enforcement oversight provisions as part of the resolution.

The vote sets up a coming weeks-long legislative process in which the Republican majority will attempt to write and pass the actual spending bill. Montana's congressional delegation — Republican Sens. Steve Daines and Tim Sheehy, and Rep. Troy Downing in the Eastern District — has not yet publicly commented on the vote's specific provisions, though all three have generally supported the administration's immigration enforcement priorities.