Two Republican-led Senate committees late Monday released legislative text to flesh out a roughly $70 billion reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement agencies at the Department of Homeland Security through the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term.
The Senate Judiciary Committee text shows that panel’s piece of the package would amount to nearly $39.2 billion, which includes nearly $2.5 billion for the Justice Department and Secret Service on top of DHS funding. A separate title from the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee would provide $32.5 billion, bringing the total to $71.7 billion in new spending.
Under the combined package, Immigration and Customs Enforcement would receive about $38.2 billion. The Judiciary title would provide over $30.7 billion of that figure, to be used for hiring and training, transportation, information technology, agreements with local police departments under the so-called 287(g) program and more.
