Unidentified speaker urges Senate to withhold ICE funding, calls for DHS reforms
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An unidentified speaker criticized a prior federal spending measure he called the "big beautiful bill," saying it cut nutrition and health care and funneled $75,000,000,000 to ICE. He demanded the Senate require reforms to the Department of Homeland Security bill, including ending roving patrols and ensuring accountability.
An unidentified speaker urged the Senate to withhold further funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), criticizing a prior federal spending measure he described as a "big beautiful bill" that reduced nutrition and health benefits while allocating $75,000,000,000 to ICE.
The speaker said the earlier measure "cut nutrition, cut health care," and argued those cuts made care "far more expensive for mega millions of Americans." He added that the spending "gave $75,000,000,000 to ICE," and characterized that allocation as "advance funding" for roughly five years into the future (the speaker said "like 5 years," which the transcript presents as an approximate time frame).
As the Senate considers the Department of Homeland Security bill, the speaker called on lawmakers to require "serious, meaningful reforms," naming specific changes he said were needed: ending "the roving patrols," "unmasking the secret police," and "ensuring accountability and fair investigations." He closed his remarks with a forceful demand: "not 1 more dollar for the ice thuggery."
The remarks were a policy appeal and a public political argument rather than a formal motion or vote. The speaker framed the funding choices in the earlier federal measure as directly harming nutrition and health programs while prioritizing immigration enforcement funding. The Senate and its members were not identified in the transcript; the speaker urged the Senate generally to attach the listed reforms to any Department of Homeland Security legislation under consideration.