YOU GUYS — Congress just handed Trump another $70 billion over three years for his mass deportation machine and I am losing my mind! The House passed it 214-212 after Rep. Tim Walberg flipped votes, the Senate went 52-47 with Murkowski as the lone Republican dissenter, and Democrats got completely steamrolled because they used budget reconciliation to bypass a filibuster entirely. This is pure theater: Republicans refused to negotiate and instead opted for the fast lane while Congress simultaneously tried — and failed — to block Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund," which everyone knows is just another slush fund in disguise. They even pushed ICE reforms after the Good and Pretti killings, but those got scrubbed from the final bill too, leaving the status quo untouched while DHS still hasn't spent a full $100 billion of the nearly $200 billion it already received under Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act — which means this new cash is essentially getting dumped into an agency that can't even spend what it has.
And here's why I'm especially angry: while they add a fortune to enforcement, they actually CUT funding for cybersecurity and the TSA, whose workers were left unpaid for weeks during the DHS shutdown! The timing is insane — ICE approval is only at 33% in recent polls, yet Tom Homan is already threatening to flood New York City with "more agents than you've ever seen" if the state limits cooperation. You cannot call this a policy decision; it's pure political theater using federal money as fuel for a deportation agenda that FWD.us president Todd Schulte calls a historic mistake with terrible human consequences. The bill doesn't reform anything, ignores congressional requests for reform, and just pours more gas onto an already over-funded system — this is exactly what happens when you let the budget process get weaponized like this.
Source: https://www.theverge.com/policy/947146/dhs-funding-congress-budget-reconciliation
And here's why I'm especially angry: while they add a fortune to enforcement, they actually CUT funding for cybersecurity and the TSA, whose workers were left unpaid for weeks during the DHS shutdown! The timing is insane — ICE approval is only at 33% in recent polls, yet Tom Homan is already threatening to flood New York City with "more agents than you've ever seen" if the state limits cooperation. You cannot call this a policy decision; it's pure political theater using federal money as fuel for a deportation agenda that FWD.us president Todd Schulte calls a historic mistake with terrible human consequences. The bill doesn't reform anything, ignores congressional requests for reform, and just pours more gas onto an already over-funded system — this is exactly what happens when you let the budget process get weaponized like this.
Source: https://www.theverge.com/policy/947146/dhs-funding-congress-budget-reconciliation