Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2026

Floor Speech

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Mr. PANETTA. Mr. Speaker, the Republican budget resolution does nothing to end the shutdown. It does nothing to reform ICE; yet it does everything to give ICE and CBP $70 billion more.

Mr. Speaker, I support a strong and secure border, but the Trump deportation policy goes way beyond going after felons and gang members. The last Republican reconciliation bill injected $190 billion into DHS, leading to thousands of untrained ICE and CBP agents being injected into our communities.

They called themselves law enforcement, but they acted with lawlessness, trolling big box store parking lots, causing chaos in our communities, deaths to American citizens, and they were allowed to act with impunity.

I said: No more funding until they transform, reform, and retrain with commonsensical law enforcement protocols and procedures.

Now, I hate shutdowns, but, Mr. Speaker, if you allow a vote on the bipartisan Senate bill today, we can open and pay the TSA, Coast Guard, Cybersecurity, and FEMA.

However, Mr. Speaker, instead of working us across the aisle, the purely partisan resolution that just funds ICE without any reforms demonstrates, once again, you are going it alone. You are doing nothing to lower costs. You are adding to our debt and deficit. You are giving in to the President, and you are giving up on our constitutional responsibilities.

I am voting ``no'' not just because I am for reforming ICE, but I am standing up to this administration, and I am living up to my oath of office.

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