Senate Delays ICE Funding as GOP Wrestles with Trump’s Anti-Weaponization Fund

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Senate Delays ICE Funding as GOP Wrestles with Trump’s Anti-Weaponization Fund
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Senate Republicans postponed a vote on a GOP package funding ICE and Border Patrol until June after a closed briefing raised questions about the administration’s $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund and its guardrails. With Democratic opposition to the fund, leaders plan to attach it to the immigration reconciliation package, and Schumer announced no further votes until June 1. House Republicans were waiting on the Senate, while Memorial Day looms and Trump had pressed for a June 1 deadline, a target now unlikely to be met.

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