2026年4月16日 美国东部时间下午3:09 / 福克斯新闻
林赛·格雷厄姆希望法案“极度精简”，而其他共和党人则推动纳入农业援助、救灾等更多内容
作者：查德·珀格拉姆 福克斯新闻
福克斯新闻首席国会通讯员查德·珀格拉姆在《特别报道》中报道了民主党推动投票结束伊朗战争以及持续的国土安全部拨款斗争。
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如果由参议院共和党高层决定，最终为国土安全部提供资金的下一份预算和解法案，将是韦戈维和司美格鲁肽般的“瘦身”组合。
但其他共和党人希望这项法案成为一场高卡路里的政治盛宴：普丁客、酸奶油洋葱味品客薯片，上面撒满里斯花生酱杯，再搭配哈根达斯巧克力花生酱冰淇淋，整瓶两升装的激浪一饮而尽。
由于受到民主党阻挠——而且在许多情况下是党内自身的分歧——国会共和党人正准备推出一项和解法案，以结束持续两个月的国土安全部拨款僵局。通过使用预算和解工具，共和党人可以无视民主党，绕过参议院阻挠议事，有望仅凭本党票数通过该法案。
前提是他们能团结一致。
共和党内讧取代与民主党交锋，终结历史性国土安全部停摆的道路脱轨
参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（南达科他州共和党）2025年1月22日在华盛顿特区前往参议院会议厅投票表决一项法案。
参议院多数党领袖约翰·图恩（南达科他州共和党）推动准备一份尽可能精简的法案，因为国土安全部已经资金枯竭太久。
“我们将迅速、果断地推进，希望能以非常聚焦的方式行事，”图恩说道。
这就是共和党人所称的“精简版”法案，旨在终结停摆。
“我们希望为移民海关执法局和边境巡逻队提供资金，或许还有其他少数几项内容。但必须极度精简、高度聚焦，”参议院预算委员会主席林赛·格雷厄姆（南卡罗来纳州共和党）说道。
但参议院共和党会议中并非所有人都支持“议会减肥计划”。
一些人希望在和解法案中纳入数百亿美元，用于支付伊朗战争的费用。另一些人则希望纳入特朗普立法议程的核心——《拯救美国法案》，该法案要求投票时提供公民身份证明。还有人推动加入农业援助条款，其他人则主张纳入救灾资金。
众议院保守派怒批参议院国土安全部停摆协议
2026年4月13日周一，唐纳德·特朗普总统在白宫椭圆形办公室外对媒体发表讲话。
“没必要精简。我们需要通过《拯救美国法案》，我们需要为战争提供资金，我们需要按照特朗普总统的要求处理国土安全部和运输安全管理局的事务，”阿拉巴马州共和党参议员汤米·塔比维尔在福克斯商业频道表示，“现在我们要尽所能往里面塞尽可能多的内容。”
但给法案加码可能会拖慢进度。尤其是在时间紧迫的情况下。
“法案范围越广，通过所需的时间就越长，”我本人对田纳西州共和党参议员比尔·哈格蒂说道。
“这个假设很合理，”哈格蒂回应道，“但我们也有一些迫切需求。我们将就所有这些问题展开辩论，确切决定我们能走多远。速度至关重要。”
我问图恩，他是否“担心”一些共和党参议员可能会要求往法案里加入“其他内容”。
“嗯，他们当然可以，”图恩答道，“我们有议员想要加入其他内容。我的意思是，我也想。但显然我们这里有明确的任务和目标。”
路易斯安那州共和党参议员约翰·肯尼迪就“精简”或“臃肿”对法案命运的影响发表了看法。
“如果约翰（图恩）坚持立场，那么法案将保持精简。如果他不坚持，法案通过就会岌岌可危，”肯尼迪说道，“如果他开始做交易，就会有四五名参议员试图推动加入他们自己的内容。如果他为了争取他们的选票而开始妥协，那将是一个巨大的错误，因为你跟一名参议员谈妥后，他会坚持要求也加入他的内容。”
肯尼迪称，为说服持犹豫态度的参议员投赞成票而在法案中加入立法甜头——也就是增加政治卡路里——将是“一个巨大的错误”。肯尼迪指出，“这份精简版法案很快就会变得臃肿不堪”。
因此，将伊朗战争资金纳入法案是一种选择，但一些共和党议员不愿在尚未明确下一步行动之前，为伊朗战争拨付更多资金。
“在我明确了解清晰、明确的战略，了解未来60天或30至35天内这场战争将如何逐步降级，或者是否会升级之前，我很难支持任何拨款或国会提供任何额外资源，”北卡罗来纳州共和党参议员汤姆·蒂利斯说道，“如果我们要长期参与其中，就需要有清晰明确的计划。”
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其他共和党人愿意给政府在伊朗问题上留出一些空间。
“我们无法控制完成任务所需的时间。所以任务应该是目标，而非完成目标所需的时间。我们已经参战了，我们需要参战并取得胜利，”怀俄明州共和党参议员辛西娅·勒莫斯说道，“看看越南，我们失败的原因就是那场战争由约翰逊在白宫指挥。当白宫试图指挥军事行动、发号施令并做出日常决策时，我们就会失败。”
这是一个风马牛不相及的问题，但一些共和党人正暗自对美国将在这场战争中承担多久的费用感到不安。尤其是随着冲突在本月晚些时候临近60天节点。
“我认为到那时问题会得到解决，”俄亥俄州共和党参议员伯尼·莫雷诺信心满满地说道。
但即便战斗结束，美国仍有可能在该地区保留军事资产。这需要持续的成本。这笔费用迟早要支付。这也是为什么这项和解法案会成为伊朗战争资金等额外条款的理想目标。
但共和党人已经承诺会推出另一项和解法案。如果第一份法案保持精简，共和党人必将在后续法案中塞入尽可能多的内容。不过，这也很难做到。而且鉴于国土安全部已经资金枯竭太久，图恩才将注意力完全放在批准国土安全部的资金上。
但和解法案十分复杂。去年从2月初一直到7月3日，参众两院才好不容易通过了《宏伟美好法案》。图恩和总统希望在未来几周内完成国土安全部拨款法案的通过。那么第三份法案呢？
“那些告诉我们会有第三份和解法案的人一直在吸食魔鬼的生菜。我们永远不会有第三份和解法案，”肯尼迪说道，“这可能是中期选举前我们有望通过的最后一项重要立法。参议院党团内部有一种共识，我也同样认为，这是最后一班列车了。我们最好现在就把所有货物都装上车。”
大多数节食都会失败。这不是意志力的问题。但有时深入其中后，节食会变得更加困难。
参众两院刚刚开始当前这项通过国土安全部拨款和解法案的努力。它可能一开始会很精简，但维持起来很难。
还有另一件事不利于议员们：历史。
国会习惯于将大量内容塞进“必须通过”的法案中。这就是额外的议会“体重”的来源。
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节食往往能成功，因为有人做出了生活方式的改变。国会会做出“生活方式改变”，仅通过一项终结国土安全部停摆的和解法案吗？
这是一个事关重大的问题。
查德·珀格拉姆目前担任福克斯新闻频道（FNC）首席国会通讯员。他于2007年9月加入该电视台，总部位于华盛顿特区。
Reporter’s Notebook: GOP clash over ‘skinny’ vs ‘obese’ DHS bill as Trump agenda looms
April 16, 2026 3:09pm EDT / Fox News
Lindsey Graham wants the bill ‘very narrow,’ while others push for farm aid, disaster relief and more
By Chad Pergram Fox News
Fox News chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram reports on Democrats’ push to force a vote to end the Iran war and the ongoing DHS funding battle on ‘Special Report.’
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If it’s up to top Senate GOP leaders, the next budget reconciliation package to finally fund the Department of Homeland Security will be on a fiscal cocktail of Wegovy and Ozempic.
But other Republicans want this measure to be a high-calorie, political feast. Pop-Tarts, Sour Cream and Onion potato chips from Pringles, topped with Reese’s Pieces and a side of Häagen-Dazs chocolate peanut butter ice cream. All washed down with an entire two-liter of Mountain Dew.
Stymied by Democrats — and in many cases themselves — congressional Republicans are now teeing up a reconciliation package to end the two-month-long DHS funding stalemate. By using budget reconciliation as a tool, Republicans can ignore Democrats, sidestep a Senate filibuster and prospectively pass the bill on their own.
If they all stick together.
GOP INFIGHTING REPLACES CLASH WITH DEMS, DERAILS PATH TO END HISTORIC DHS SHUTDOWN
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., heads to the Senate chamber to vote on a bill on Jan. 22, 2025, in Washington, D.C.(Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
There’s a push by Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., to prep a bill as svelte as possible, since DHS has been penniless for so long.
“We’re going to move quickly, decisively, and hopefully in a very focused way,” said Thune.
This is why Republicans call this a “skinny” bill, devoted to ending the shutdown.
“We want to fund ICE and Border Patrol and maybe a few other things. But very narrow. Very focused,” said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
But not everyone in the Senate Republican Conference is on parliamentary Weight Watchers.
Some want to stuff the reconciliation bill with tens of billions of dollars to cover the cost of the war in Iran. Others want to include the touchstone of Trump’s legislative agenda, the SAVE America Act. It requires proof of citizenship in order to vote. There’s a push to tack on farm aid. Others are arguing for disaster relief.
HOUSE CONSERVATIVES RAGE AGAINST SENATE DHS SHUTDOWN DEAL
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Monday, April 13, 2026.(Salwan Georges/Bloomberg)
“It doesn’t need to be skinny. We need to do the SAVE America Act. We need to fund the war. We need to do whatever President Trump needs to do with DHS and TSA,” said Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., on Fox Business. “Let’s put as much stuff in there as we can get now.”
But loading up the bill could slow it down. Especially when time is of the essence.
“The broader you make this, the longer it’s going to take to pass the bill,” yours truly pointed out to Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tenn.
“That’s a fair assumption,” replied Hagerty. “But we have some critical needs as well. We’re going to have to debate all of this and decide exactly how far we’re going to go. Speed is critical.”
I asked Thune if he was “worried” that some Republican senators may ask to dump “other things” into the legislation.
“Well, they could,” replied Thune. “We have members who want other things. I mean, I want other things. But obviously we have a specific mission and purpose here.”
Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., opined on what skinny or fat means for the fate of the legislation.
“If John [Thune] holds firm,then the bill will remain skinny. If he doesn’t, it’ll jeopardize the bill being passed,” said Kennedy. “If he starts making deals, there will be four or five senators who take a run at it to try to have their stuff included. If he starts making deals to get their votes, it’ll be a huge mistake because you’re talking to one senator, and he is going to insist that [his] stuff be included, too.”
Kennedy called adding legislative sweeteners — increasing the political caloric count — into the legislation to convince reluctant senators to vote yes would be “a huge mistake.” Kennedy noted that “this skinny bill is going to become obese very quickly.”
So adding Iran dollars into the bill is one option, but some Republicans are reluctant to spend any more money on Iran until they get some answers about what’s next.
“It’s going to be very difficult to get my support for any funding, or any additional resources from Congress until I have a clear, articulated strategy, how this is going to be ramping down over the next 60 or 30 to 35 days. Or, if it’s going to be escalated,” said Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C. “We need a clearly articulated plan if we’re going to be there for the long term.”
‘WE DIDN’T CAVE’: THUNE HIGHLIGHTS SCHUMER, DEMS’ LOSSES IN DHS FUNDING DEAL
A bridge struck by U.S. airstrikes on Thursday is seen in the town of Karaj, west of Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 3, 2026.(Vahid Salemi/AP)
Other Republicans are willing to give the administration some leeway on Iran.
“We can’t control the time it’s going to take to accomplish the mission. So the mission should be the goal. Not the time it takes to accomplish the goal. We’re in it. We need to be in it to win it,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo. “Look at Vietnam. The reason we lost is because that war was being managed by LBJ from the White House. And when the White House tries to manage the military and call the shots and make the day-to-day decisions, we fail.”
This is an apples-and-oranges question, but some Republicans are not-so-quietly getting skittish about how long the U.S. will be on the hook for the war. Especially as the conflict creeps toward the 60-day mark later this month.
“I think it will be solved by then,” said a confident Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio.
But even if the battle is over, it’s probable the U.S. would still maintain military assets in the region. There’s a running cost on that. That bill will come due at some point. And that’s why this reconciliation bill is such a ripe target for additional items like Iran war funding.
But Republicans are already promising an additional reconciliation bill. If the first bill remains lean, GOPers will inevitably push to stash whatever they can in the later package. Still, that’s hard. And with DHS unfunded for so long, that’s why Thune is trained just on approving DHS money.
But reconciliation bills are complex. The House and Senate consumed the entire period from early February through July 3 last year just to pass the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act. Thune and the president want the DHS funding bill wrapped up in the next few weeks. So a third bill?
“Those who tell us that we’re going to have a third reconciliation bill have been smoking the devil’s lettuce. We will never have a third reconciliation bill,” said Kennedy. “This is the last major piece of legislation that we will likely pass until the midterms. There’s a feeling which I share among the Senate caucus that this is the last train leaving the station. We had better get all our cargo aboard. Now.”
Most diets fail. It’s not a question of willpower. But sometimes dieting is a challenge the deeper you get into it.
The House and Senate are just beginning the current effort to pass the reconciliation bill for DHS funding. It may start out slender, but maintenance is hard.
Here’s something else working against lawmakers: history.
Congress is used to piling lots of things into “must-pass” bills. That’s where the extra parliamentary pounds come from.
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Diets often succeed because someone makes lifestyle changes. Will Congress make a “lifestyle change” and pass a reconciliation that only ends the DHS shutdown?
It’s a weighty question.
Chad Pergram currently serves as Chief Congressional Correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC). He joined the network in September 2007 and is based out of Washington, D.C.