House Republicans narrowly passed a reconciliation bill on Tuesday. by two votes, to provide another $70bn in funding over the next three years to the Department of Homeland Security, ensuring that agencies carrying out Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda remain funded until the end of his presidency.
The final vote was briefly tied. because Tim Walberg, a Michigan Republican, originally voted No, which would have killed the measure in a 213-213 tie. After being surrounded by House Republican leaders, he changed his vote and the measure passed.
It will become law with Trump’s signature.
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Here are the day’s developments so far:
House Republicans narrowly passed a reconciliation bill on Tuesday. by two votes, to provide another $70bn in funding over the next three years to the Department of Homeland Security, ensuring that agencies carrying out Donald Trump ’s mass deportation agenda remain funded until the end of his presidency.
At nearly the same moment. the US struck Iran again, in retaliation for teh downing of a US helicopter near the strait of Hormuz.
JD Vance, the US vice-president, said that a deal with Iran to end the war launched by the US. Israel 102 days ago, “could happen in the next week, but the deal could also happen months from now.”
Lesley Groff, longtime executive assistant to Jeffrey Epstein, the late child sex offender Trump socialized with for nearly two decades, testified before the House oversight. reform committee.
In a statement posted on social media minutes ago. the US military announced that US forces “began launching self-defense strikes against Iran at 5 p.m. ET today at the Commander in Chief’s direction, in response to yesterday’s downing of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter. The mission is a proportional response to unjustified Iranian aggression.”
House Republicans narrowly passed a reconciliation bill on Tuesday. by two votes, to provide another $70bn in funding over the next three years to the Department of Homeland Security, ensuring that agencies carrying out Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda remain funded until the end of his presidency.
The final vote was briefly tied. because Tim Walberg, a Michigan Republican, originally voted No, which would have killed the measure in a 213-213 tie. After being surrounded by House Republican leaders, he changed his vote and the measure passed.
It will become law with Trump’s signature.
In an interview with CBS News posted online Tuesday, JD Vance, the US vice-president, said that a deal with Iran to end the war launched by the US. Israel 102 days ago, and assuage concerns over Iran’s nuclear program, could “absolutely” be struck before the midterm elections in November.
“I think we’re going to know a lot before the midterm elections”, Vance said. “I think he deal could happen in the next week, but the deal could also happen months from now.”
The House is currently debating the Republican bill to provide $70bn to the Department of Homeland Security to fund immigration enforcement for the remainder of Donald Trump’ s term.
Bennie Thompson. the Mississippi Democrat who chaired the 2022 select committee investigation of the January 6 attack on the Capitol, just noted that this bill does not include a provision that failed in the Senate that would have prevented the Department of Justice from paying Trump supporters convicted of attacking police officers in that riot up to $1.776bn.
The upcoming vote is expected to be close in the narrowly divided House, where Republicans hold a slim majority,. have one member, Tom Kean Jr, who has been missing for months due to a health crisis. The vote just to open debate passed by just 213-211 along party lines.
Hospitality. food service workers in several US cities hosting World Cup matches are warning of looming labor disputes and possible strikes as the largest single sport tournament in the world gets ready to kick off on 11 June.
In Los Angeles, California, cashiers, dishwashers, cooks, bartenders, concessions workers. food attendants at the SoFi stadium reached a tentative agreement on Tuesday afternoon, but the union noted it has a contractual right to walk off the job if it determines that federal immigration enforcement is threatening worker safety during the World Cup. The US’s opening match, against Paraguay, is scheduled to take place at SoFi Stadium on 12 June.
About 2,000 workers at SoFi Stadium represented by Unite Here Local 11 had voted 96% in favor of a strike authorization before the agreement was reached on Tuesday. Workers are seeking a new union contract with wage increases and protections from Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ).
“We’re just trying to make things fair,” said Eva Miles, a bartender at SoFi stadium since it opened in 2021. “Without us, they don’t have a stadium. Are they going to cook? Are they going to pour those drinks? Are they going to serve these people?”
Miles said she and her co-workers cannot afford to live near the stadium on the wages they’re currently paid. She commutes two hours to work every day and said some co-workers have even longer journeys.
“Let’s see them live on our wage, let’s see them raise a family,” added Miles. Workers are pushing for pay above $30 an hour. “I’ve been there since the beginning. I love meeting new people. I want my guests to be happy, and I want them to enjoy it and have a great experience. I know they spend a lot of money,. I know they’re spending a lot of money on this Fifa World Cup, so I don’t understand why we can’t get what we want and everybody be happy.”
For successive men’s World Cup tournaments, from Brazil to Russia to Qatar, Fifa has managed to bulldoze its way through costly immigration. entry requirements. Not so in 2026. where Fifa has found its tournament squarely caught up in the second Trump administration’s aggressive border restrictions.
My colleague Martin Belam has this explainer on some of the people that have been affected. including Omar Artan, one of 52 referees appointed by Fifa for the tournament, who has been refused entry to the US after arriving in Miami. Artan had been set to become the first person from Somalia to officiate at a World Cup.
For the vote, due to take place in the 4.30pm ET vote series, House speaker Mike Johnson will need near perfect GOP attendance. unity to finally push through the legislation, which would then go to Donald Trump for his signature to fund ICE and Border Patrol for the next three years.
The legislation has been sidetracked multiple times. The GOP initially sought to include $1bn for enhanced security on the White House grounds, including for Trump’s new ballroom. And the Trump administration recently tried to create a $1.8bn fund to compensate allies of the president who claim they have been unjustly investigated. prosecuted.
Those politically toxic proposals were scrapped and now the bill is focused entirely on immigration enforcement. It will allocate $38bn to ICE, $26bn to the Border Patrol. another $5bn for unforeseen costs related to Trump’s immigration crackdown and mass deportation agenda.
That is in addition to the nearly $140bn that the Republican-controlled Congress gave ICE. CBP last year as part of Trump’s sweeping tax and spending cuts bill.
Democrats have objected to giving the agencies more money without significant changes in the way they operate after the fatal federal shootings of Alex Pretti. Renee Good in Minneapolis. Among those demands, Democrats have insisted that agents remove masks. be required to display their ID badges during enforcement operations and that they get a judicial warrant before entering private property.
But. after a monthslong standoff that resulted in the longest shutdown in the nation’s history after Democrats refused to fund the Department of Homeland Security over ICE operations in Democrat-led cities, negotiations with the White House ultimately failed.
Republicans then turned to a complicated procedural manouevre to get around the filibuster. pass the immigration funding package with no Democratic votes.
So essentially, the funding for ICE and CBP will now come with virtually no strings attached.
Per The Hill, the rule appeared briefly to be in trouble, with Republican representatives Chip Roy of Texas, policy chair of the far-right House Freedom Caucus,. Tim Burchett of Tennessee initially voting “no”.
They. a number of other hardliners, including members of the Freedom Caucus who were reportedly withholding their votes as they sought commitments on codifying more of Trump’s border policies, huddled with speaker Mike Johnson and majority leader Steve Scalise.
In the end, Roy and Burchett flipped their votes and other hardliners voted “yes”.
House Republicans have narrowly passed a hard-fought rule to advance Trump ’s $70bn immigration enforcement reconciliation bill to fund ICE. CBP through to the end of Trump’s term.
The rule, passed 213-211 along party lines, tees up a debate and final vote on the GOP measure later today.
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