Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2026

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Ms. CHU. Mr. Speaker, for yet another week, Republicans have brought us legislation that does absolutely nothing to lower the cost of groceries, housing, or healthcare. Instead, they want another $140 billion to expand their lawless deportation machine. Not one penny will make life more affordable for people. In fact, this bill fails to implement the most basic commonsense reforms to ICE and CBP.

Trump's immigration agents have ripped hundreds of thousands of people from their families, jobs, and communities. Nearly 60,000 people are trapped in ICE detention, almost half with no criminal record, and 48 people have died in ICE custody.

Their anti-immigrant agenda is killing people--people like my constituent, Carlos Montoya, a 52-year-old father and grandfather. When ICE agents raided a Home Depot just minutes from my district, Carlos was so frightened that he fled and was tragically struck and killed by a car on the freeway. This administration is instilling so much terror that people are willing to risk their lives to escape.

Republicans' big, ugly bill already handed ICE $170 billion, and now they want another $140 billion to keep kidnapping children, tackling grandmothers to the ground, raiding car washes, and shooting innocent people. Yet, somehow they keep insisting that there is no money for healthcare, food assistance, or housing.

Vote ``no'' on this bill.

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