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.

Congress narrowly voted to fund President Donald Trump's mass deportation agenda, 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 Tuesday, following the Senate's 52-47 vote last 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), initially voted against the bill - meaning it would have failed - but changed his vote after huddling with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Appropriations Chair Tom Cole (R-OK), according to The Hill … Read the full story at The Verge.