Our last email alert, restated below, asked you to send emails to GOP US Senators on this issue. This email alert asks you to send an email to US Senate Majority Leader John Thune's chief of staff.
Click here to send your email to US Senate Majority Leader John Thune's Chief of Staff to express concern about DHS funding vote without ICE and Border Patrol and to urge him to deploy Reconciliation Bill and Standing Filibuster to pass DHS funding and SAVE America Act.
Unlike most of Florida Family Association action emails this email will open in your own email client. This form of email is being used because the US Senate blocks emails sent through the florida-family.org action email server. If the emails doe not open properly in your email client please consider using the information below to copy, paste and send this action email in your own email software. Please feel free to edit this email to your own words.
It is truly disastrous that all GOP Senators cannot unite to protect Americans from harm, both foreign and domestic, while Democrat Senators unanimously favor criminal illegal aliens over American citizens by demanding an open border and zero deportations.
CNN published an article titled Senate unanimously moves to fund most of DHS, except ICE and border patrol, in rare overnight session. The article reports in part:
The Senate unanimously moved to fund most of the Department of Homeland Security, except for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and part of Customs and Border Protection, in a rare overnight session.
What is “rare” about this late night bill is that it passed by “unanimous consent.” This means that as long a no senator opposed the bill it would pass.
President Trump publicly voiced frustration with the Senate-passed bill Friday afternoon. “You can’t have a bill that’s not going to fund – in my opinion, you can’t have a bill that’s not going to fund ICE. You can’t have a bill that’s not going to fund any form of law enforcement, of which ICE is a big form, and so is Border Patrol,” he told Fox News.
House Speaker Johnson Mike Johnson said Friday morning “This gambit that was done last night is a joke.” He blamed Senate Democrats rather than Thune. “I told him (Thune), it shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody that we would not be able to do that,” Johnson said late Friday night, after the House vote. “We’re not going to split apart two of the most important agencies in the government and leave them hanging like that. We just couldn’t do it.”
The House voted 213-203, with three Democrats voting yes, on Friday, March 27, 2026, to fully funding DHS for eight weeks including with border and immigration money that the senate deal left out.
The Senate held a pro-forma session on Monday, March 30, 2026 at 10:30 am ET to consider the bill passed Friday by the House to fully fund DHS. This Senate pro-forma session had the opportunity to pass the House bill by “unanimous consent” like the Senate did late Thursday night to pass its funding bill without ICE and Border Patrol. However, unlike Republican Senators the Democrats had Senator Chris Coons in the lobby, even though the Senate had recessed Friday, to be the one and only Senator to oppose the bill and cause it to die for lack of unanimity.
The Democrats want to make sure that ICE and Border Patrol are defunded. They will not stop with this agenda in order to appease their hard left political base.
How long will a few Republican US Senators continue to oppose the Standing Filibuster when faced with Democrats’ unrelenting, unanimous disdain for law enforcement and the public safety of all Americans?
GOP Senators must unite to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and approve the SAVE America Act through deployment of a Reconciliation Bill and Standing Filibuster.
The US Senate may not be back in session until April 13, 2026 but now is the time to respond to this while the issue is hot.
Florida Family Association has prepared an email for you to send to express concern and urge GOP US Senators to deploy Reconciliation Bill and Standing Filibuster to pass DHS funding and SAVE America Act..
Click here to send your email to US Senate Majority Leader John Thune's Chief of Staff to express concern about DHS funding vote without ICE and Border Patrol and to urge him to deploy Reconciliation Bill and Standing Filibuster to pass DHS funding and SAVE America Act.
Unlike most of Florida Family Association action emails this email will open in your own email client. This form of email is being used because the US Senate blocks emails sent through the florida-family.org action email server. If the emails doe not open properly in your email client please consider using the information below to copy, paste and send this action email in your own email software. Please feel free to edit this email to your own words.
Email address:
Geoffrey Antell, Chief of Staff
[email protected]
Subject line:
Vote without ICE and BP funding is outrageous Please unite GOP behind Reconciliation Bill and Standing Filibuster for DHS and SAVE America Act.
Email content:
Dear Senator Thune,
It is truly disastrous that all GOP Senators cannot unite to protect Americans from harm, both foreign and domestic, while Democrat Senators unanimously favor criminal illegal aliens over American citizens by demanding an open border and zero deportations. The Senate vote to fund DHS except ICE and Border Patrol is outrageous. I urge you to work hard to unite GOP to deploy Reconciliation Bill and Standing Filibuster to pass DHS funding and SAVE America Act.
Contact information:
US Senator John Thune
Senate Majority Leader
Washington, D.C. Office
United States Senate SD-511
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2321
Fax: (202) 228-5429
Toll-Free: 1-866-850-3855
Email
Geoffrey Antell, Chief of Staff
[email protected]
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Unlike most of Florida Family Association action emails this email will open in your own email client. This form of email is being used because the US Senate blocks emails sent through the florida-family.org action email server. If the emails doe not open properly in your email client please consider using the information at the bottom of this Florida Family Association article to copy, paste and send this action email in your own email software. Please feel free to edit this email to your own words.
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