Dumping $70 billion into ICE with zero reforms or guardrails ignores what the publicfact actuallythat wants — nearly 3 in 4 Americans supported reforming or abolishing the agency outright. Republicans used budget reconciliation to steamroll Democratic demands for basic safeguards like judicial warrants, locking in unchecked enforcement through Trump's entire term. That money could have gone toward lowering health care costs or groceries instead of funding an agencyincreasingly aunpopular plurality of Americans say makes the country less safeagency.