Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2026

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Ms. JAYAPAL. Mr. Speaker, this budget resolution is a total insult to the American people. Instead of addressing the rising prices of gas, groceries, housing, childcare, the things that actually allow people to survive in an economy that Republicans have rigged for the billionaires, this resolution puts another $70 billion into ICE and CBP. That is on top of the $170 billion slush fund that was given to these agencies in the Republican's big, bad betrayal bill last year that allowed ICE and CBP to carry out a violent, cruel, unconstitutional campaign of terror in communities across this country, killing Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota; conducting a campaign of mass detentions, detaining an unprecedented number of people, which has resulted in a record 47 deaths; locking up children and using them as bait for their parents; and terrorizing schools, churches, and hospitals with their activity.

Meanwhile, Republicans refuse to address the rising costs that Americans are dealing with because this administration refuses to put the people first.

Americans of every political stripe do not want more money to go to ICE's slush fund. What they want is real reforms to ICE and CBP to rein in the lawlessness. What they want is for the administration to get serious about cutting their costs instead of catering to Trump's cronies. Vote ``no'' on this resolution.

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