GOP Bets $70B on ICE/CBP Funding, Locking In Immigration Policy Through 2028

Senate Republicans approved roughly $70 billion in new funding for ICE and CBP via budget reconciliation, locking in multi-year DHS spending (through the rest of Trump’s term) and limiting Democrats’ ability to secure reforms. The piece questions spending transparency, notes prior large allocations and detention-center purchases, discusses potential sales of warehouses, highlights detainee deaths and oversight hurdles, and frames the move as part of a broader Republican drive to entrench a hardline immigration agenda rather than pursue reforms.