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 $70B immigration enforcement bill without limits on fund
The Senate passed legislation to fund President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies early Friday morning, after weeks of delays and fierce backlash to an unrelated $1.776 billion settlement fund that threatened to derail the bill. Senators voted 52-47 for the $70 billion legislation to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol for the next three years, through the end of Trump’s term. The final vote came just before …
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WASHINGTON — The Senate on Friday passed a roughly $70 billion package to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol operations through the end of President Donald Trump’s term, delivering a key victory for the administration’s immigration priorities. The measure, approved by a 52-47 vote largely along party lines, would provide funding for the… The post Senate passes $70 billion ICE, Border Patrol funding package in win for Trum…
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