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Senate Debates $70B ICE and Border Patrol Funding Bill

Senate Debates $70B ICE and Border Patrol Funding Bill

Senate Debates $70B ICE and Border Patrol Funding Bill
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The Spin


The $70 billion immigration enforcement package is critical to securing the border and keeping Americans safe. The real threat to the bill isn't Republican unity — every GOP senator backed it in the first procedural vote — but Democratic obstruction dressed up as amendment fights. Senate Republicans need to hold the line and make sure no amendment strips the bill of its reconciliation privilege.

Pouring $70 billion more into ICE doesn't make Americans safer — it funds the kind of abuses already documented at facilities like Delaney Hall. Republicans are burning Senate floor time on a vote-a-rama that does nothing to lower costs or improve lives. This is a massive spending priority that serves enforcement overreach, not the public good.


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