Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) have announced a “two-track” plan to fund the Department of Homeland Security through the end of President Donald Trump’s term. First, House Republicans will pass the bipartisan Senate bill that will fund all of the DHS, except Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, through September 2026. Separately, both chambers will then pass a reconciliation bill, on a party-line vote, that will fund all of the DHS through the end of the Trump presidency.

Not only is this a wise move necessary to protect historic border security accomplishments, but Republicans should apply it to the rest of the government before Democrats undo other accomplishments through the appropriations process.