Trump Demands Republican-only Immigration Bill By June 1

President Donald Trump set a June 1 deadline Wednesday for Republicans to pass a bill to fund immigration enforcement through the party-line reconciliation process.

“We are going to work as fast, and as focused, as possible to replenish funding for our Border and ICE Agents, and the Radical Left Democrats won’t be able to stop us,” the president posted on Truth Social.

Trump’s demand for Republicans to use the procedural tool that circumvents a Democratic Senate filibuster comes as the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security moves further into record-breaking territory.

The partisan showdown over immigration funding has now spiraled into an intraparty battle inside the GOP, and both the House and Senate have adjourned for two weeks with lawmakers pointing fingers at each other. Democrats have dug in and refused to fund immigration enforcement agencies without constraints on how agents can operate.

The president’s post essentially endorses the approach favored by Senate Majority Leader John Thune, but Trump did not say Wednesday whether he supports immediate House passage of the Senate-approved bill to fund the rest of DHS — or whether he wants to hold off until reconciliation is complete. He also didn’t specify whether he wants the reconciliation bill to be confined solely to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol funding.

Trump’s Truth Social post comes as White House, House GOP leaders and Senate GOP leaders work to mutually agree on reconciliation targets before Congress returns on April 13, according to two people with knowledge of the conversations and granted anonymity to describe it.

House Majority Whip Tom Emmer told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Wednesday that if there isn’t a deal to reopen DHS by the time Congress comes back “you’ll see a skinny reconciliation bill move very quickly through the Senate and the House.”