Legislative Calls to Action -- June 3, 2026

Jun 2
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Update on the ICE/DHS Reconciliation Vote

The reconciliation bill in question is a ~$72 billion package called "Reconciliation 2.0" focused mainly on funding ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for three years. Republicans had hoped to pass it before the Memorial Day recess and send it to the House for consideration, with the goal of getting it to the president by June 1. However, internal disagreements over certain provisions delayed the process, forcing Senate Majority Leader John Thune and House Speaker Mike Johnson to delay votes. Republicans Return to Reconciliation Negotiations After Memorial Day Recess | National Low Income Housing Coalition

The main sticking point: the Justice Department's new "anti-weaponization" fund earned strong pushback from Republican members. The Senate had been prepared to take up the bill before recess, with the House set to do the same shortly after — but the plans fell apart after a meeting between GOP senators and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who was dispatched to the Hill to convince skeptical members. The $1.776 billion fund was established as part of a settlement of a suit by President Trump against the IRS, and pro-Trump allies — including those charged in connection with the January 6 attack — have said they are eager to submit claims. Congress delays votes on ICE funding amid GOP opposition to new DOJ fund - CBS News

As of today, Senate Republicans are returning from recess with their focus set on ways to move the reconciliation package. The House has been on standby while Senate leadership works out how much of the White House wishlist they can salvage, with the House's first vote this week not expected until Wednesday. Congress is already behind the June 1 deadline President Trump set to get the package to his desk.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed that Senate Democrats would fight the DOJ fund and force politically tough votes related to it, saying "This week, Senate Democrats will launch a coordinated effort to kill the slush fund before one cent goes out the door." This week: Reconciliation round two? – Roll Call

So, in short: the Senate is working on resolving the impasse this week, but a House floor vote is not expected until the Senate passes it first, which could still be days or weeks away.

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Why so much fuss about the Reconciliation Bill?

(Based on the Indivisible Weekly Newsletter)

This bill, using our taxpayer dollars, is funding atrocities like Delaney Hall.

Delaney Hall

The Delaney Hall Detention Facility is an immigration concentration camp in Newark, New Jersey with more than 1,000 beds. It’s one of many other such facilities that play a major role in Trump’s multi-billion-dollar mass deportation agenda.

Delaney is federally funded and privately run for profit. GEO Group, ICE’s single largest contractor, received a $1 billion to contract from ICE run it. GEO operates more than a dozen similar ICE-funded camps around the country.

Human beings. Immigrants who’ve been here for decades are being held there. Also, parents and spouses of US citizens, Dreamers like the 18-year-old pulled out weeks before her high school graduation, pregnant women, the elderly, and overwhelmingly people with no criminal records at all. People who are detained do much of the facility's own labor -- cooking, cleaning, repairs -- for as little as $1 per day.

The conditions are reported to be horrible. There are reports of maggot-ridden food, overcrowding, extreme heat, scalding showers, and dangerously inadequate healthcare -- no doctor on site, and Tylenol handed out for everything from cancer to chronic disease.

Delaney has been a flashpoint for over a year. But we are hearing about it now because on May 22, a few hundred detained people organized a hunger and labor strike, followed by solidarity protests outside the building. Then it escalated:

Last weekend, ICE agents pepper-sprayed press and protestors, including US Senator Andy Kim.
This past weekend, Gov. Sherrill sent in state police that used tear gas, flash-bangs, rubber bullets, and mounted units to attack protestors and press; Proud Boys counter protesters showed up; and the city set a curfew.

Local Indivisible members are among the throng of protestors. Immigrants detained inside Delaney are bravely demanding dignity, due process, and the freedom to be with their families. They want Delaney and all detention centers closed. They demand that the most vulnerable - particularly the elderly, the young, and the seriously ill -- be released, and investigations into the facility and those running it.

It is federal funds flowing through private hands tormenting the moms, dads, and kids inside Delaney and camps like it across the country. Congress controls the purse and has oversight power, and members are returning from recess this week to try to pass a reconciliation bill that would shovel billions more to ICE and Border Patrol. Now is the time for us all to act.

Show your solidarity with hunger strikers by demanding Congressional action against Trump’s mass detention regime. People detained at Delaney Hall and other detention centers are on hunger strike to protest their captivity and inhumane treatment by ICE. Use the link above to call your representative and demand Congress address the captives’ demands and stop the Trump regime’s inhumane incarceration of our immigrant neighbors. Then, use this link to call your senators, too.
If you have a Republican Member of Congress, email them to oppose another penny of funding for ICE and Border Patrol. The scenes outside Delaney over the past week have put ICE and Border Patrol’s brutality and lawlessness on public display once again. And yet, as soon as this week, Congress could hold a vote to hand those thuggish agencies tens of billions more. We need to increase the pressure NOW to peel off enough Republicans to sink the funding bill.

FISA update

Negotiators are close to a bipartisan deal that would reauthorize FISA Section 702 for three years, according to multiple sources involved in the talks.

This is a Senate-driven process, with Intelligence Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) seeking to maximize Democratic support. There’s been close coordination with the House and the White House.

Aides in both parties expect the final product to pass with support from a majority of Senate Republicans and a minority of Democratic senators.

This is news: The negotiated bill is expected to include a key sweetener to attract votes from privacy hawks who have long called for reforms to Section 702: a provision that narrows the definition of an electronic communications service provider. (Punchbowl News)

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