The Senate officially rejected two of Donald Trump’s biggest priorities for the upcoming budget reconciliation bill, it was revealed Wednesday, as the upper chamber published the text of a bill to fund ICE and CBP.
With Senate Republicans retreating from negotiations with Democrats over Immigration and Customs Enforcement funding and turning to the filibuster-proof reconciliation process, Trump pressed the chamber to include a $1 billion funding item related to his construction of a ballroom on the White House grounds, as well as $1.776 billion to fund a “weaponization fund” meant to distribute payouts to people prosecuted by the Department of Justice under Democratic administrations.
