WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans unveiled a 58-page budget resolution on Tuesday to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection through the budget reconciliation process, which allows passage without Democratic votes. The measure authorizes the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security committees to draft legislation increasing spending by up to $70 billion each for the two agencies.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who leads the Senate Budget Committee, released the resolution. An aide to Senate Majority Leader John Thune said the final bill's price tag is expected to be around $70 billion total. Republicans are aiming to fund the agencies for 3.5 years, guaranteeing funds for immigration enforcement through the remainder of the Trump presidency.

"Republicans are moving forward — not backward — on rational immigration policies that secure our border," Graham said. He added: "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."

Senate Republicans are aiming to begin voting on the budget resolution as early as midweek, with a goal of getting the final bill to the president's desk by the June 1 deadline he set. For months, Democrats have opposed funding ICE and CBP, seeking reforms following two deadly shootings by federal agents in Minneapolis in January. After talks failed to yield an agreement, Senate Republicans opted to fund the bulk of the Department of Homeland Security through the appropriations process while moving funding for immigration enforcement separately.

"The reconciliation plan isn't the ideal way to do this," Thune said. "I really regret that the Democrats have forced us down this path, because in my view, the appropriations process is one of the, maybe not many, but at least few things that we ought to be able to do around here in a bipartisan way."

DHS has been shut down since Feb. 14, and President Trump moved to temporarily pay DHS employees. The Senate unanimously approved a plan to fund the bulk of DHS without ICE or CBP funding, but House Republicans have so far been unwilling to do so. Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson announced an agreement earlier this month to fund most of DHS through appropriations and ICE and CBP through reconciliation. "After the Senate acts, House Republicans will do our part and fund those essential functions of the government, and then we'll do the rest of Homeland Security," Johnson said.

A number of Republicans have called for additional priorities to be added to the reconciliation package, complicating its swift passage. "But obviously we have a specific mission and purpose here and that is to ensure that these important agencies of our government that have vital functions when it comes to our homeland and national security are funded," he said.