"[This] provides ICE with close to a $10 billion blank check to continue its ongoing efforts to increase detention beds with no oversight guardrails or assurances that other critical homeland security operations and investigations, such as countering fentanyl and illicit narcotics, combating human trafficking, and other transnational criminal activities are prioritized," the fact sheet stated.
Republicans took heat from members of their base because the funding bill did nothing to reduce overall spending. In fact, Massie said in a video posted on X that bill was "not Trump's agenda" but Biden’s.
Rep. Jason Smith, R-Mo., chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, told Newsmax on Tuesday that immigration enforcement and border security were among the reasons why it was important to pass the measure and avoid a government shutdown.