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Liz Wolfe | 6.5.2026 9:30 AM

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Funding the immigration crackdown: Early this morning, the Senate passed a $70 billion immigration enforcement bill at the behest of Republicans and the White House. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R–Alaska) was the only Republican to join the Democrats and oppose the bill's passage.

"Passage came only after Republican leaders quelled an internal revolt that had been simmering for weeks over recent moves by Mr. Trump that have underscored how his personal agenda is diverging sharply from his party's political interests," reports The New York Times. "The divisions threatened to sink the measure and prompted several G.O.P. defections on bipartisan efforts to modify it, all of which failed in an hourslong series of back-to-back votes that stretched all day Thursday and into the predawn hours of Friday."

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One such provision that failed to be removed was a ban on a $1.8 billion "Anti-Weaponization Fund" that would compensate people who can successfully make the case that the government mistreated them or wrongly targeted them. Now, libertarians could theoretically be very in favor of such a fund. (Great, civil asset forfeiture victims can finally get justice!) But nope: This is........

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