The Senate voted to advance the roughly $70 billion reconciliation bill funding immigration enforcement efforts to a debate. It will now consider a number of amendments before final passage of the legislation which funds Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) through 2029.
The funding package would significantly expand hiring pipelines, training requirements, detention operations, investigative resources, and technology deployments across the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
The advance came after the Trump administration indicated it was willing to drop its anti-weaponization fund, which would provide payouts to individuals who say they were targeted by politically motivated government actions– an issue that senators from both parties were lining up against.
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