The bill assumes that funds for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol will be paid over the next three years. The aim of the project is to protect these formations against the effects of potential paralysis of the financing of government agencies, i.e. shutdowns.
Almost all Republicans voted in favor of the bill. Democrats and Lisa Murkowski, a Republican senator from Alaska, were against it. The bill will now go to the House of Representatives for final adoption.
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Financing of services passed. This is a big success for Donald Trump
CNN estimates that the funding vote is a major political victory for Donald Trump. This bill, according to some Republicans, may be the last important legislative success of the American president before the midterm elections, which will take place in the fall.
The passage of the project was not without difficulties. The bill has been blocked for several weeks due to ongoing discussion around a fund for people who say they were treated unfairly during Joe Biden's presidency. Ultimately, however, it was passed.
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Fund for Joe Biden's “victims”. The decision has been made
The fund for “victims” of unfair treatment by the justice system under Biden was created as part of Trump's settlement with his own administration in exchange for dropping a lawsuit against the IRS over the disclosure of his tax records. Trump said he gave up a lot of money by dropping his $10 billion lawsuit. damages against the IRS. Payments from the fund were to be decided by a committee staffed mostly by the White House.
Democrats in Congress described the new creation as a “corruption fund” through which the president intends to pay public money to his allies, as well as, among others, participants in the 2021 storming of the Capitol.
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— We will not implement this fund. Full stop, acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche finally announced on Tuesday. However, he refused to make such a commitment in writing.
