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What's the status of ICE funding? The House passed a standalone DHS funding bill last week. But then they COMBINED the DHS bill with 5 other less controversial funding bills to trap the Senate. Now the Senate has til Jan 30 to vote on a 6-bill package that funds ICE *and* most other gov programs...

The Senate will vote *this week* on the 6-bill appropriations minibus: YES = ICE continues, basically as is NO = partial government shut down ICE does have a $75 billion slush fund from last year’s Big Bullshit Bill (HR 1) they can use even if the government or DHS is shut down...

But dismantling this rogue agency has to start somewhere. ICE and Border Patrol executed two people in Minneapolis, on camera, with impunity. But for years, they have routinely abused and tortured countless others in the shadows, in the camps, with no media attention...

Because “must pass” government funding bills need 60 votes to pass the Senate, they are the strongest points of leverage Democrats have to influence federal policy. They must use that NOW to rein in ICE...

Senate Minority Leader Schumer has promised that Democrats will NOT provide votes to pass a government funding package that includes the DHS bill. Hold them to it...

Two kinds of congress critters, instigators and collaborators

Don’t defund ICE, prosecute ICE.