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Trump’s actions in LA spur debate over deportation funds in his ‘big, beautiful’ bill​

By LISA MASCARO
Updated 6:12 PM CDT, June 10, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” in Congress includes more than tax breaks and spending cuts — it also seeks to pour billions of dollars into the administration’s mass deportation agenda.

Republican leaders capitalized Tuesday on the demonstrations in Los Angeles, where groups of protesters are demonstrating against Trump’s immigration raids at Home Depot and other places where migrants congregate, to make the case for swift passage of their sprawling 1,000-plus-page bill.

House Speaker Mike Johnson said the One Big Beautiful Bill Act delivers “much-needed reinforcements,” including 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, $45 billion to expand migrant detention facilities and billions more to carry out at least 1 million deportations ”every single year.”

“All you have to do is look at what’s happening in Los Angeles to realize that our law enforcement needs all the support that we can possibly give them,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.

The focus on some $350 billion in national security funding comes as action on the massive package is lumbering along in Congress at a critical moment. Trump wants the bill on his desk by the Fourth of July. But Senate Republicans trying to heave it to passage over the objection of Democrats are also running up against objections from within their ranks over the details. ...

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