The Senate officially rejected two of Donald Trump’s biggest priorities for the upcoming budget reconciliation bill on Wednesday as the chamber published the text of a bill to fund ICE and CBP.With Senate Republicans retreating from negotiations with Democrats over ICE funding and turning to the filibuster-proof reconciliation process, Trump pressed the chamber to include a $1 billion funding item related to his construction of a ballroom on the White House grounds, as well as $1.776 billion to fund a “weaponization fund” meant to distribute payouts to people prosecuted by the Department of Justice under Democratic administrations. The latter was derided as a “slush fund” for Trump’s friends and political allies, including by some Senate Republicans.Both of those items were stripped from the bill text published by the Senate GOP on Wednesday after a full-scale revolt in the chamber threatened the reconciliation bill’s path forward last month.This is a breaking news report. More to follow…
Senate abandons Trump: New ICE bill leaves out money for ballroom, ‘slush fund’
Republicans went into Memorial Day holiday warning that ICE funding would be endangered by the president’s demand for a ‘slush fund’
















