Senate Passes $70 Billion ICE/CBP Funding Package 52-47 — Largest Immigration Enforcement Appropriation in U.S. History; Goes to House

In the early hours of June 5, 2026, the U.S. Senate passed a $70 billion immigration enforcement funding reconciliation package by a vote of 52-47 after a marathon approximately 19-hour vote-a-rama session that began the prior afternoon. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) was the only Republican to vote against the bill; no Democratic senator voted for it — making the margin 52 Republicans to 47 opposition votes. The funding breakdown: approximately $38.6 billion for ICE enforcement and detention operations, $26 billion for Customs and Border Protection, and approximately $5 billion in discretionary DHS enforcement funds — all funded through the end of President Trump's second term, roughly three additional years, insulating both agencies from future government shutdown vulnerabilities after the 76-day partial DHS shutdown that ended in March 2026. The controversial $1.776 billion anti-weaponization settlement fund — establishing a pool to compensate individuals the Trump administration claims were unfairly targeted by federal prosecutions — survived multiple Democratic amendment attempts to strip or restrict it. The package also cleared the $1 billion White House ballroom security provision that the Senate Parliamentarian had earlier struck as a Byrd Rule violation; ultimately Byrd Rule challenges resulted in a slightly trimmed total from the original $71.7 billion CBO estimate. The bill now moves to the House of Representatives, which was on recess and not expected to take it up until the following week. The Senate passage represents the largest single congressional appropriation for immigration enforcement in U.S. history, adding approximately $70 billion on top of the $45 billion already appropriated through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1, signed July 4, 2025). The combined measures allocate more than $115 billion for immigration enforcement over the coming years — equivalent to approximately 13 years of ICE's pre-2025 annual budget. The package contains no independent oversight provisions, no minimum medical care standards for detainees, and no use-of-force accountability requirements, despite the agency recording more detainee deaths in FY2026 than in any prior fiscal year in its history.