US Senate passes $70B immigration enforcement bill without limits on Trump settlement fund
The bill funds immigration enforcement for three years and moves to the House after Republicans rejected efforts to block Trump’s settlement fund.
- On Friday, the Republican-controlled Senate passed a $70 billion immigration enforcement bill following 19 hours of debate, advancing the measure with a 52-47 vote to fund U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection through President Donald Trump's term.
- Senate Republicans utilized the budget reconciliation process to approve the funding package with a simple majority, successfully sidestepping the standard 60-vote threshold required to break a filibuster.
- The legislation allocates $38.2 billion to ICE for detention operations and $26 billion to CBP for personnel and surveillance, while maintaining a controversial $1.776 billion administration settlement fund that lawmakers attempted to restrict.
- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said, "Republicans fought like hell to please Donald Trump in his slush fund," while Republican budget committee chairman Lindsey Graham countered that funding ensures "America will be safer."
- Moving to the House for consideration, the legislation faces significant scrutiny before Trump can sign it into law. If approved, the investment will expand federal immigration enforcement operations significantly through the remainder of his presidency.
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Senate passes bill for more ICE and border funding, rejecting attempts to limit Trump anti-weaponization fund
The U.S. Senate handed President Donald Trump a victory early Friday morning, passing a bill that would provide the Department of Homeland Security with an additional $70 billion US for immigration enforcement and sending it to the House of Representatives for final consideration.
The Republicans have asserted themselves in the Senate against the Democrats and released 70 billion dollars, which should also flow to the U.S. immigration agency ICE. It is in criticism of its brutal action.
Victory for Trump? US Senate clears $70 billion bill to fund ICE; fails to block anti-weaponization fund
The Senate approved a $70 billion DHS immigration enforcement bill 52–47, largely along party lines, sending it to the House. It omitted a $1.8 billion ‘anti-weaponization’ fund; debates over that fund and unrelated amendments.
After weeks of negotiations, the Senate passed this Friday morning a bill to inject about $70 billion more into U.S. immigration agencies over the next three years, until the end of Donald Trump’s term. With 52 votes in favour and 47 against, the Republican bloc voted united and only Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski joined the Democrats to oppose the package. Approval was achieved around five in the morning, after a marathon session that began on T…
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