Congress just gave DHS another $70 billion

Congress passed a reconciliation bill granting the Department of Homeland Security $70 billion over three years to fund President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans. The House vote was 214-212 after a mostly party-line Senate vote, with last-minute Republican maneuvering helping secure passage.

The funding signals a major expansion of federal immigration enforcement capacity and places DHS at the center of Trump’s second-term policy agenda. The narrow vote also shows how politically fragile but operationally consequential immigration enforcement funding has become.