The proposal to fund most of DHS but put off funding Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) removal operations appeared to have momentum, but that changed on Tuesday when critics in both parties panned it.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), a rising conservative star, criticized the proposal during the Senate Republican lunch Tuesday for effectively cutting ICE’s budget and said he would not vote for it, according to sources familiar with the meeting.

“I’m skeptical about voting to defund or to cut ICE funding,” he said after the meeting. “I would hope that we’re not going to be asked to do that. I do not want to vote to defund ICE. I don’t want to vote to cut ICE funding. I want ICE to be fully funded.”

Republican colleagues who presented the proposal to Trump on Monday said they can provide more money for ICE’s deportation programs through a budget reconciliation package later in the year, but some conservatives are doubtful that will actually happen, given the difficulty of passing a reconciliation bill through both chambers with only GOP votes.

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