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Today is the deadline President Donald Trump set for Republicans to pass this reconciliation bill, but it’s behind schedule because lawmakers will not be voting on it today. Now two of the president’s priorities are giving Republicans pause. The Trump administration tried pushing lawmakers to include one. $1 billion in security money for the White House and the ballroom into this immigration bill. *** larger issue also boiling over is this nearly $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund announced by the Justice Department to compensate people who say they were politically targeted by the government. Now *** growing number of GOP leaders are pushing back against the use of these taxpayer funds and questioning why people prosecuted for their involvement in the January 6th riot can apply for the money. On top of this, demonstrations over concerns of conditions at an immigration detention facility in New Jersey is putting the Trump. Deportation agenda back into focus, which could make the bill even harder to pass. Republicans are trying to pass this bill to fund things like ICE and CBP for the next 3.5 years. Now Democrats, they refuse to allocate additional funds to pay for immigration enforcement on Capitol Hill, I’m Rachel Hirsheimer.
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Immigration enforcement funding bill remains stalled as lawmakers return to Washington after break
Republicans are struggling to advance an immigration enforcement bill as President Donald Trump’s funding priorities and other issues stall progress in Washington.
Republicans in Washington are facing delays in passing an immigration enforcement funding bill as debates over President Donald Trump’s spending priorities and other issues create obstacles. Today marks the deadline Trump set for Republicans to pass the party-line $71.7 billion reconciliation bill, but the legislation is behind schedule, and lawmakers will not be voting on it today. Two of Trump’s priorities are causing hesitation among GOP leaders. The Trump administration has pushed for $1 billion in security funding for the White House and its ballroom to be included in the bill. Additionally, a $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund announced by the Justice Department is stirring controversy. The fund is intended to compensate individuals who claim they were politically targeted by the government, but some Republicans are questioning its use, particularly for those prosecuted for their involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. On the first day of his second term, Trump pardoned or commuted all defendants connected to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, several hundred in all.Demonstrations over concerns about conditions at an immigration detention facility in New Jersey are also putting Trump’s deportation agenda back into focus, which could make the bill even harder to pass. Protesters and law enforcement clashed on Saturday night as they demonstrated to call attention to a hunger strike taking place inside Delaney Hall, a private, for-profit facility in Newark, contracted by the Department of Homeland Security. Detainees are protesting the reportedly poor conditions inside.”Senator Thune, our leader, is bringing us back in to make certain that we refocus and get the Department of Homeland Security fully funded, and certainly Customs and Border Patrol and our ICE agents taken care of, so the Democrats can’t attack them anymore,” said Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee.The original bill is a roughly $70 billion proposal to restore funding to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol. It would fund these agencies through the end of the Trump administration, creating roughly $70 billion in new debt, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Republicans drafted the bill after talks with Democrats to place new guardrails on the Trump administration’s controversial immigration enforcement tactics failed. Republicans are pursuing the money through a special party-line process called reconciliation, where funding bills can pass both chambers of Congress with a simple majority rather than the traditional 60-vote threshold in the Senate. A separate bill became law after Republicans and Democrats voted to fund the remaining agencies of the Department of Homeland Security. DHS funding ran out in February, prompting the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history.Republicans are trying to pass the bill to fund agencies like ICE and CBP through September 2029, but Democrats are refusing to allocate additional money to pay for immigration enforcement. Keep watching for the latest from the Washington News Bureau:
Republicans in Washington are facing delays in passing an immigration enforcement funding bill as debates over President Donald Trump’s spending priorities and other issues create obstacles.
Today marks the deadline Trump set for Republicans to pass the party-line $71.7 billion reconciliation bill, but the legislation is behind schedule, and lawmakers will not be voting on it today.
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Two of Trump’s priorities are causing hesitation among GOP leaders.
The Trump administration has pushed for $1 billion in security funding for the White House and its ballroom to be included in the bill.
Additionally, a $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund announced by the Justice Department is stirring controversy. The fund is intended to compensate individuals who claim they were politically targeted by the government, but some Republicans are questioning its use, particularly for those prosecuted for their involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. On the first day of his second term, Trump pardoned or commuted all defendants connected to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, several hundred in all.
Demonstrations over concerns about conditions at an immigration detention facility in New Jersey are also putting Trump’s deportation agenda back into focus, which could make the bill even harder to pass. Protesters and law enforcement clashed on Saturday night as they demonstrated to call attention to a hunger strike taking place inside Delaney Hall, a private, for-profit facility in Newark, contracted by the Department of Homeland Security. Detainees are protesting the reportedly poor conditions inside.
“Senator Thune, our leader, is bringing us back in to make certain that we refocus and get the Department of Homeland Security fully funded, and certainly Customs and Border Patrol and our ICE agents taken care of, so the Democrats can’t attack them anymore,” said Sen. Bill Hagerty, R-Tennessee.
The original bill is a roughly $70 billion proposal to restore funding to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol. It would fund these agencies through the end of the Trump administration, creating roughly $70 billion in new debt, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Republicans drafted the bill after talks with Democrats to place new guardrails on the Trump administration’s controversial immigration enforcement tactics failed.
Republicans are pursuing the money through a special party-line process called reconciliation, where funding bills can pass both chambers of Congress with a simple majority rather than the traditional 60-vote threshold in the Senate. A separate bill became law after Republicans and Democrats voted to fund the remaining agencies of the Department of Homeland Security. DHS funding ran out in February, prompting the longest partial government shutdown in U.S. history.
Republicans are trying to pass the bill to fund agencies like ICE and CBP through September 2029, but Democrats are refusing to allocate additional money to pay for immigration enforcement.
Keep watching for the latest from the Washington News Bureau:
