Senate Hands ICE 70 Billion In Dawn Power Grab

The Senate just voted at 3:36 a.m. to give ICE and Border Patrol up to 70 billion dollars for the next three and a half years using reconciliation—a budget trick that bypasses the filibuster and skips the normal appropriations process where Congress reviews agencies every year. This is the first time anyone's used reconciliation to replace annual funding with multi-year autopilot money, and it sets a precedent where any bare majority can now fund or defund entire agencies at dawn without convincing a single person from the other party. DHS has been shut down for 69 days since two people were killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, but nobody's explaining what reforms Democrats actually wanted or why these agencies need 70 billion when they're already getting money from last summer's funding bill.