The new DHS budget puts the flimsiest handcuffs on ICE

[samsingh]

Source: MSNOW

As another funding deadline looms over Capitol Hill, the biggest question is how lawmakers will approach the bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security. The answer came Tuesday, when House and Senate appropriators released the final set of full-year funding bills. A look at the Homeland Security Appropriations Act showcases how unpopular President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has become — and how few options Democrats have to force new constraints onto it.

The four bills included in the so-called minibus package come pre-negotiated between the House and Senate, helping smooth their passage through both chambers. In all, the bill would provide $64.4 billion in funding to DHS for the current fiscal year. As Senate Appropriations Committee vice chair Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wa., noted in her bill summary, that’s a $600 million overall decrease compared with last year.

Read more: https://www.ms.now/opinion/dhs-ice-budget-congress-kristi-noem

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is it too much to ask our representatives to actually stand up for what is right, humane, and actually supported by most Americans? Why do we keep supporting legislation that the GOP wants and point at a few places where it 'could have been worse'. Not a high bar.

[Bayard]

1. $64billion too much

[in2herbs]

2. Our Ds in Congress still are soooo out of touch with real Americans! nt

[angrychair]

3. It will be so much comfort

To the next poor person that ICE crashes through their front door and makes them stand naked in the snow or leaves their toddler alone in subfreezing temperatures that at least they can say to themselves "well at least their budget was reduced by a fraction of 1%" and feel better about that.