This will end the Trump admin borrowing money from other programs to pay for ICE and CBP….
The money approved is $70 Billion….
One would assume some of the money would have to go back to the places that paid for the two agencies….
So the $70 Billion will be reduced in the end for usage..
This IS a Win for Trump against Democratic efforts to influence the Trump/Miller Immigration effort….
The new Homeland Sec. HAS moved on some of the Democratic concerns anyways…
We’ll see if that continues….
Oh?
Some Republican want to introduce parts of Trump’s policy in a new Immigration reform bill…
Immigration police in America has NOT has a new law since the 1980’s….
One can image that with an incoming Democratic House majority ?
Such an effort would be DOA…..
The bill funds two federal agencies: Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection. The money would fund the agencies through the end of Trump’s term bypassing the annual appropriations process, an unusual move that has allowed Republicans to avoid compromising with Democrats.
The bill’s passage is the culmination of a months-long fight over government funding. The standoff was triggered by the killing of Alex Pretti and Renée Good by federal agents in Minneapolis in January during protests against the administration’s deportation operations there. Democrats in Congress had refused to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which includes ICE and CBP, unless Republicans agreed to impose new restrictions on federal agents.
The bill Republicans passed Tuesday includes none of those restrictions.
Reps. Tim Burchett (R-Tennessee) and Chip Roy (R-Texas) initially voted against proceeding to a final vote on the bill Tuesday. They changed their votes after a conversation on the floor with leadership.
Burchett told The Washington Post that he sought reassurance from House leadership that they would bring a measure to codify Trump’s immigration policies into law. He signaled leadership agreed to bring a bill to the floor.
“We’ve run on those issues,” Burchett said. “We need to start following through with some stuff,” he added.
Roy, after the final vote, said he and GOP leadership had good conversations about a possible vote on the sweeping Republican immigration measure introduced during the last Congress…..
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The legislation is particularly unusual because it is the first time reconciliation is being used to bypass the normal annual appropriations process and fund government agencies for multiple years in an effort to avoid future shutdowns….
Note….
Effort’s to include other Trump ‘wants’ in the bill where turned down by Republicans who have singled they are reluctant to use the same method again before the Midterm vote….
The Republicans are NOT going to entertain firing the parliamentarian or disregarding its ‘Super Majority Rule’…
Ya never know when your party could lose your majority , eh?
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