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Chuck Schumer: “Republicans rammed through 75 billion for ICE and tens…”

Featuring: Chuck Schumer, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Published April 20, 2026 | Video Starts at 07:42

… on solving people's problems, not constantly cleaning up their own messes and shoveling tens of billions more into unaccountable rogue agencies. Remember last year in Donald Trump's big, ugly betrayal Republicans rammed through 75 billion for ICE and tens billions more for Border Patrol. With virtually no guardrails, minimal training standards, and no real idea of what they were unleashing. Well, that led to disaster. (07:42–07:49)

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Asserts that Republicans allocated $75 billion for ICE and additional billions for Border Patrol.

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