AP: Senate GOP Moves $340B Budget Resolution Forward, Prioritizing Mass Deportations and Family Separation

Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, AP reported that Senate Republicans are advancing a $340 billion budget resolution designed to operationalize Trump’s mass deportation agenda, doubling down on family separation, mass raids, and detention expansion while gutting resources that working families rely on. In order to provide an unaccountable slush fund that could bankroll the largest mass deportation effort in modern history, essential programs like Medicaid, food assistance, and education are on the chopping block as Trump directs lawmakers to prioritize cruelty over stability for millions of American families.

Instead of investing in education, healthcare, or infrastructure, Trump and Republicans are terrorizing communities across the country, prioritizing raids near schools, churches, and hospitals, restaurants and worksites – putting families at risk. Despite claims that enforcement would be narrowly focused on public safety threats, recent raids have upended entire communities, proving once again that Trump’s immigration policies are cruel, chaotic, and indiscriminate.

Read excerpts from the article:

“Senate Republicans pushed ahead late Tuesday on a…budget bill, a $340 billion package to give the Trump administration money for mass deportations and other priorities, as Democrats prepare a counter-campaign against the onslaught of actions coming from the White House.”

“These bills have one purpose — and that is to give tax breaks to their billionaire buddies and have you, the average American person, pay for it,” Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer told AP. “It is outrageous.”

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