史上最长政府停摆暴露党派分歧，参众两院如今正准备为移民海关执法局和边境巡逻队拨款
2026-05-12T06:00:57-04:00 / 福克斯新闻网
作者：亚历克斯·米勒 福克斯新闻网
发布时间：2026年5月12日 美国东部时间早上6:00 | 更新时间：2026年5月11日 美国东部时间下午12:29
图恩称他已就国土安全部拨款与约翰逊“定期沟通”，“白宫已介入”
福克斯新闻首席国会记者查德·珀格拉姆就共和党人如何通过预算和解程序推进国土安全部拨款法案，采访了参议院多数党领袖、南达科他州共和党议员约翰·图恩。
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参议院共和党人正在审视他们与众议院共和党人的关系，同时为参众两院又一场考验党派团结的关键投票做准备。
过去几个月来，共和党掌控国会期间始终存在功能失调、沟通不畅和时间浪费的问题，尤其是在有记录以来最长的一次政府停摆期间。
参议院共和党人并未单独指责众议院其他议员应承担责任，但他们一致认为，在推进未来数年移民执法机构拨款工作之际，必须做出改变。
特朗普称他“无法忍受”某些共和党人拒绝为他的议程做出一项关键举动
参议院共和党人对众议院同僚的立法拖沓进度感到越来越沮丧。一些人认为这是领导层之间的沟通破裂，另一些人则将责任归咎于两院之间的巨大差异。(安德鲁·哈尼克/盖蒂图片社；汤姆·威廉姆斯/CQ-滚呼公司 via 盖蒂图片社)
“我认为我们都需要坐下来，制定我们的计划，”阿拉巴马州共和党参议员凯蒂·布里特对福克斯新闻数字频道说。“我们要如何为美国民众办成事？这必须是我们的目标，而现在必须做出改变。”
共和党人正准备通过预算和解程序，为移民海关执法局（ICE）和边境巡逻队提供未来三年半的拨款。鉴于民主党人将被排除在这一程序之外，这需要两院几乎全票支持才能成功。
但两院之间的分歧在国土安全部（DHS）停摆期间暴露无遗：由众议院议长、路易斯安那州共和党议员迈克·约翰逊领导的众议院共和党人拒绝审议参议院为重新开放该机构提出的妥协方案。
这一决定将停摆延长了近一个月，并迫使他们不得不转而采用预算和解程序。在领导层和唐纳德·特朗普总统都呼吁团结一致的当下，这也加剧了参众两院之间的不满情绪。
约翰逊紧急应对，特朗普与参议院共和党人施压众议院为国土安全部拨款
阿拉巴马州共和党参议员凯蒂·布里特出席美国国会山的一场参议院听证会。(安娜·莫尼马克/盖蒂图片社)
约翰逊和参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩都面临着微弱的多数优势，约翰逊的优势比图恩更小。参议院共和党人清楚这一现实，尤其是在民主党不会支持的立法议题上，这在一定程度上避免了参议院内部的公开指责。
“我认为我们都明白迈克在那边面临的挑战，他不是国王，他只是众议院议长，”堪萨斯州共和党参议员罗杰·马歇尔对福克斯新闻数字频道说。“按比例计算，他的容错空间比我们还小。所以我无法想象，我认为他已经尽了最大努力。”
一些共和党人认为，与其说是众议院毫无节制的功能失调，不如说是两院之间的沟通问题。
俄亥俄州共和党参议员伯尼·莫雷诺告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，他不认同“整个众议院都功能失调”的说法，反而表示参议员们有责任付出更多努力。
“我认为我们参议院这边也需要承担一点责任，这当然不只是领导层的责任，而是我们所有人的责任，”莫雷诺说。“因为我们在审议法案时，应该与众议院保持完全同步。”
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参议院多数党党鞭、怀俄明州共和党议员约翰·巴拉索在2026年3月4日美国国会山投票后对记者发表讲话。(安德鲁·哈尼克/盖蒂图片社)
例如，众议院共和党人曾表示，他们对参议院今年早些时候重新开放国土安全部大部分部门的协议感到意外，该协议为ICE和边境巡逻队划拨了资金。
“我们必须确保更好地沟通，共同解决问题，”俄克拉荷马州共和党参议员詹姆斯·兰克福德对福克斯新闻数字频道说。“众议院不是我们的敌人。我们必须能够就一项法案解决所有问题。我们有不同意见，好吧，那就把它们解决掉。”
自去年共和党人掌控两院以来，沟通问题主要由国土安全部部长马克韦恩·穆林处理，这位前共和党参议员充当了两院之间就重大立法推进工作的事实上的联络人。
当被问及共和党是否需要一个“新版穆林”时，兰克福德表示，主要的沟通责任落在图恩和约翰逊身上。
图恩并未急于公开批评约翰逊或众议院共和党人，他指出两院的性质和运作方式会导致沿途出现各种问题。
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“我们显然需要60票的门槛，”图恩说。“我们需要民主党人。你知道，他不需要民主党人，但他需要每一位共和党议员的支持，这在顺利的日子里都是一项真正的挑战，而在这里，顺利的日子可不多见。”
与此相反，参议院多数党党鞭、怀俄明州共和党议员约翰·巴拉索辩称，尽管存在这些问题，但如果共和党人没有团结一致通过特朗普的“宏伟法案”，民主党掌控两院的话，美国人将面临数十年来最大规模的增税。
“如果民主党人占据多数并随心所欲地增税，所有这一切都会走向反面，”巴拉索对福克斯新闻数字频道说。
亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字频道撰稿人，负责报道美国参议院事务。
Fragile relationship with House GOP has Senate Republicans warning ‘something needs to change’
The longest-ever government shutdown exposed divisions as both chambers now prepare to fund ICE and Border Patrol
2026-05-12T06:00:57-04:00 / Fox News
By Alex Miller Fox News
Published May 12, 2026 6:00am EDT | Updated May 11, 2026 12:29pm EDT
Thune says he has spoken ‘regularly’ with Johnson on DHS funding, ‘White House involved’
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Senate Republicans are taking stock of their relationship with the House GOP as they gear up for another key test of their unity across chambers.
Dysfunction, miscommunications and wasted time have dotted the last few months of Republicans’ control of Congress, particularly during the longest government shutdown on record.
Republicans in the upper chamber aren’t singling out others in the House who should bear responsibility, but they do agree that something needs to change as they plow forward to fund immigration operations for the next few years.
TRUMP SAYS HE ‘CAN’T STAND’ SOME REPUBLICANS FOR REFUSING ONE KEY MOVE FOR HIS AGENDA
Senate Republicans have grown frustrated with their counterparts in the House over the sluggish pace of legislation. Some argue it’s a communication breakdown among leadership, others put the blame on just how different the two chambers are.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
“I think we all need to get in a room and figure out what’s our plan,” Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., told Fox News Digital. “And how are we going to get things done for the American people? That has to be the goal, and right now something needs to change.”
Republicans are readying to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol for the next three and a half years through budget reconciliation, which will require near-perfect unanimity in both chambers to work, given that Democrats are getting cut out of the process.
But divisions between the chambers were laid bare during the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shutdown, when House Republicans, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., refused to consider the Senate’s compromise plan to reopen the agency.
That decision prolonged the shutdown for nearly a month, and spurred the necessity to turn to reconciliation. It also fostered frustration between the Senate and House at a time when leadership and President Donald Trump are calling for unity.
JOHNSON SCRAMBLES AS TRUMP, SENATE REPUBLICANS PRESSURE HOUSE TO FUND DHS
Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala., attends a Senate hearing in the U.S. Capitol.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Both Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., have thin majorities to work with — Johnson more so than Thune. That reality isn’t something that’s lost on Senate Republicans, particularly on legislation that Democrats won’t support, and is so far preventing the knives from coming out in the upper chamber.
“I mean, I think we understand the challenges that Mike has over there. He’s not king. He’s the speaker of the House,” Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., told Fox News Digital. “And their margin of error is less than ours, proportionately. So I can’t imagine. I think he’s doing the very best he can.”
Some Republicans argue that it’s more of a communication issue between the chambers than unfettered dysfunction in the House.
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, told Fox News Digital he didn’t buy the “whole House’s dysfunction” argument, and instead said it was incumbent on senators to make more of an effort.
“I think we have to take a little bit of ownership ourselves here in the Senate, and that’s certainly not just the leadership, but all of us,” Moreno said. “Because when we’re working on bills, we should have total, complete synchronicity with the House.”
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Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., speaks to reporters after voting at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2026.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
House Republicans, for example, contended that they were blindsided by the Senate deal to reopen the bulk of DHS earlier this year that carved out funding for ICE and Border Patrol.
“We’ve got to be able to make sure we’re communicating better and working through the issues,” Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., told Fox News Digital. “The House isn’t our enemy. We gotta be able to resolve all the issues on a piece of legislation. We have differences of opinion. OK, let’s work them out.”
The issue of communication is one that, since Republicans took control of both chambers last year, was largely handled by DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, the former GOP senator who acted as a de facto liaison between both chambers for major legislative pushes.
When asked if Republicans needed a Mullin 2.0, Lankford said that the main points of communication fell on Thune and Johnson.
And Thune has not been quick to criticize Johnson or House Republicans publicly and noted that the nature of both chambers and how they operate would lead to issues along the way.
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“We obviously have a 60-vote threshold,” Thune said. “We need Democrats. You know, he doesn’t need Democrats, but he needs every Republican, and that’s a real challenge on a good day. And, you know, sometimes there aren’t a lot of good days around here.”
Conversely, Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., argued that despite the issues, if Democrats were in control of the chambers, Americans would have been hit with the largest tax hike in decades had Republicans not mustered a unified front to pass Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
“All of that would have been in the opposite if the Democrats had been in the majority and been able to do what they wanted to do to raise taxes,” Barrasso told Fox News Digital.
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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