Congress just gave Trump $70 billion to deport more people

Congress voted narrowly to support President Donald Trump’s massive deportation package, giving the Department of Homeland Security $70 billion over the next three years.

The House voted 214 to 212 in favor of the reconciliation bill on Tuesday, following The Senate voted 52-47 It’s Friday morning. The vote fell largely along party lines. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) was the only Senate Republican to vote against it. Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), originally voted against the bill – meaning it would have failed – but changed his vote after arguing with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole, According to Mountain. No Democrats voted in favor of the bill, which was passed through a budget reconciliation process to avoid a Democratic filibuster.

In his speech on the floor of the House before the vote on Tuesday, Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA) criticized Republicans for using the budget reconciliation process to avoid negotiations with Democrats, emphasizing ICE’s lack of popularity with the American people.

“At its core, this Republican reconciliation budget bill is a statement of priorities, and the priorities represented in this budget bill may not match the needs and values ​​of the American people,” Scanlon said.

Scanlon said that DHS they didn’t spend $100 billion about $200 billion received from the ground Trump’s One Big Big Bill Act. He said Trump not only expanded ICE’s reach in tracking illegal immigrants but also weaponized DHS against those who resist. The bill, he said, would “increase” Trump’s brutality.

After the House presentation last Friday, Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), a member of the House Oversight Committee, he realized that the bill does not have enough changes and cuts in funding for cybersecurity and TSA, whose employees went weeks without pay during the DHS shutdown.

The funding bill comes at a time when people are not very fond of ICE. One recent research found that only 33 percent of voters approve of how the agency is doing its job.

And it gets to the middle another threat from border czar Tom Homan to New York City and ICE agents. In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Mr. Homan said he would send “more ICE agents than you’ve ever seen” to New York City if the federal government passed an executive order to end the contract with DHS.

Correction, June 9: An earlier version of this story said Rep. Tim Walberg voted against the bill. He initially voted against it but later changed his vote to support it.