Speaker proposes amendment to cut $75 billion in ICE funding, condemns federal deployments in cities
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Summary
An unidentified speaker called recent federal funding for immigration enforcement a 'domestic army,' cited $10 billion annually for ICE and an additional $75 billion over four years, and said he filed an amendment to cut the $75 billion and redirect funds to health care and domestic needs.
Speaker 1, an unidentified speaker, criticized federal deployments and funding for immigration enforcement and described them as a growing domestic security force. He said the country is "moving closer and closer toward an authoritarian society" under President Trump and accused federal agents of actions including "knocking down doors, ignoring the constitution, grabbing people, putting them into unmarked vans" and other abuses in cities such as Minneapolis.
The speaker stated funding figures for immigration enforcement, saying Congress typically provides "$10,000,000,000 a year for immigration and customs enforcement" and that an additional "$75,000,000,000 over a 4 year period" was included in a recent appropriations measure. He characterized that $75 billion as effectively funding a "domestic army" rather than focusing on immigration enforcement.
He announced an amendment "in that bill, which would cut that $75,000,000,000 from the so called big beautiful bill that went to ICE," and urged colleagues to support the amendment. The transcript records the introduction of the amendment but does not show a vote, a mover/second, or any formal committee disposition in the provided excerpt.
The speaker framed the proposed reallocation as a policy choice: rather than spending on what he called domestic enforcement deployments, the funds should go toward health care and helping people access necessary services. No agency response or debate on the amendment is recorded in the excerpt.
