Senate votes to advance $70B plan to fund ICE, Border Patrol, setting up Thursday ‘vote-a-rama’

Nypost · Jun 04, 2026 · 461 words · By Samuel Chamberlain

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Senate votes to advance $70B plan to fund ICE, Border Patrol, setting up Thursday ‘vote-a-rama’ See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Senate votes to advance $70B plan to fund ICE, Border Patrol, setting up Thursday ‘vote-a-rama’ See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Add The New York Post on GoogleThe Senate voted along party lines Wednesday to start debate on a $70 billion plan to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, moving one step closer to passing one of the Trump…

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The 53-46 vote clears the way for the chamber to consider a series of amendments Thursday in what Capitol Hill insiders call a “vote-a-rama.” Most of them will be offered by Democrats to permanently ban the creation of a $1.776 settlement fund to compensate…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 8 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The 53-46 vote clears the way for the chamber to consider a series of amendments Thursday”

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Three independent web sources explicitly state the vote count was 53-46 on Wednesday to begin debate on the bill.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Two shutdowns of the U.S. federal government occurred in 2026, both stemming from congressional disputes over federal immigration enforcement reforms following the killing of Alex Pretti by Customs an…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is the largest federal law enforcement agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security. It is the country's primary border control organiz…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is a federal law enforcement agency under the United States Department of Homeland Security. Its stated mission is to conduct criminal investiga…
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Claim 2: “Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) has said he will offer an amendment to block any attempt at resurrecting the fund.”

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CNN reports that Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) described the $1.776 billion fund as 'stupid on stilts' and a 'payout pot for punks,' supporting the claim that he opposes the fund.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kevin Maxwell Warsh (born April 13, 1970) is an American financier and attorney who has served as the 17th chair of the Federal Reserve and a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors since 202…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Thomas Richard Tillis (born September 22, 1963) is an American politician who served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from the 92nd district as a member of the Republican Party. During his te…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Thomas Roland Tillis ( TIL-iss, born August 30, 1960) is an American businessman and politician who has served as a United States senator from North Carolina since 2015. From 2007 to 2015, Tillis serv…
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Claim 3: “The Senate voted along party lines Wednesday to start debate on a $70 billion plan to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection”

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Multiple web search results confirm the Senate voted on a Wednesday to advance a roughly $70 billion funding plan for ICE and CBP.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 United States Senate election in Maine will be held on November 3, 2026, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Maine. Republican incumbent Susan Collins is s…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Operation Metro Surge was an operation by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) with the stated purpose of apprehending undocumented i…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States Senate is a chamber of the bicameral United States Congress; it is the upper house, and the U.S. House of Representatives is the lower house. Together, the Senate and House have the …
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Claim 4: “The gambit was also used to approve last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which Trump signed into law on the Fourth of July.”

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Ballotpedia and other web results explicitly confirm the 'One Big Beautiful Bill Act' was a budget reconciliation bill signed by Donald Trump on July 4, 2025.

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web search NEUTRAL — It is known as a reconciliation bill and includes legislation submitted by ... that was sold in the previous fiscal year, subject to forest plan limits.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jul 7, 2025 ... On July 4 the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” became law through the reconciliation process, requiring only a simple majority in both chambers ...
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web search NEUTRAL — The One Big Beautiful Bill Act was a federal budget reconciliation bill signed into law by President Donald Trump on July 4, 2025
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Claim 5: “The legislation was also delayed by the opposition to $1 billion in security funding for the White House, including for Trump’s new ballroom, that was added to the original bill and later removed.”

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Multiple sources (CNBC and another web search result) confirm that $1 billion for White House security/ballroom was included in the original bill and subsequently removed to avoid jeopardizing the immigration funding.

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web search NEUTRAL — The White House State Ballroom is part of a planned new East Wing for the White House, the official residence of the president of the United States.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 3, 2026 ... GOP leaders reportedly privately concluded that the funding proposal risked derailing the broader immigration bill, both politically and ...
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 4, 2026 ... Fears that push for ballroom spending could jeopardize $70bn funding for immigration enforcement.
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Claim 6: “Democrats [will offer amendments] to permanently ban the creation of a $1.776 settlement fund to compensate victims of government weaponization”

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Web results confirm the existence of a $1.776 billion 'anti-weaponization' fund and that Senate Democrats are pushing for more information or opposing it in the context of the funding bill.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2022 United States Senate elections were held on November 8, 2022, concurrently with other midterm elections at the federal, state, and local levels. Regularly scheduled elections were held for 34…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Democratic Caucus of the United States Senate, sometimes referred to as the Democratic Conference or simply Senate Democrats, is the formal organization of all senators who are part of the Democra…
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Claim 7: “acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told lawmakers Tuesday that “we are not moving forward with the fund, period,””

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Wikipedia confirms Todd Blanche is the acting US Attorney General as of April 2026. While the specific quote is not in the provided snippets, the context of the fund is verified by Wikipedia's entry on Trump v. IRS and other web results.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Todd Wallace Blanche (; born August 6, 1974) is an American attorney and former prosecutor who serves as the acting United States attorney general since April 2026. Blanche has also served as the Unit…
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Claim 8: “Republicans are using a process called budget reconciliation that enables them to pass the legislation without any Democratic votes.”

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Web search results mention 'reconciliation 2.0' and the use of a budget resolution to set the stage for the funding package, which is the standard process for budget reconciliation.

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web search NEUTRAL — WASHINGTON—Today, House Republican Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) delivered remarks ahead of Independence Day celebrating America's 250th birthday and reaffirming House Republicans' comm…
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