{"id":24434,"date":"2026-04-21T13:11:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?p=24434"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:22:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:22:31","slug":"senate-budget-committee-ranking-member-merkley-releases-statement-on-republicans-push-to-pass-a-second-unpopular-reconciliation-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/senate-budget-committee-ranking-member-merkley-releases-statement-on-republicans-push-to-pass-a-second-unpopular-reconciliation-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Merkley Releases Statement on Republicans\u2019 Push to Pass a Second Unpopular Reconciliation Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the below statement following the Senate Republicans\u2019 release of a fiscal year 2026 budget resolution to tee up the passage of a second reconciliation bill that would throw up to $140 billion at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cLast summer, Republicans passed a mega bill betraying hardworking American families, cutting more than $1 TRILLION from health care programs to fund tax breaks for billionaires. Now, Republicans are once again ignoring the issues that Americans are begging Congress to address.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cRather than focusing on lowering the cost of gas or groceries, Congressional Republicans are hellbent on passing another bill to provide even more funds to ICE and CBP &#8212; agencies that were already funded at multiple times their former budget last year!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cIn addition, Republicans rejected any commonsense reforms for these agencies such as wearing identification or getting a warrant before breaking into homes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cInstead, the Republican plan is more money for more secret police tactics that are terrorizing communities across America.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>\u201cAs Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, I will fight further unchecked power and blank checks to Trump\u2019s secret police and continue to focus on hardworking families\u2014families who are struggling to make ends meet due to policies championed by Trump and Congressional Republicans,\u201d<\/strong> said Ranking Member Jeff Merkley. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2014 Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the below statement following the Senate Republicans\u2019 release of a fiscal year 2026 budget resolution to tee up the passage of a second reconciliation bill that would throw up to $140 billion at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":18847,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[139,53,129],"class_list":["post-24434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-budget","tag-civil-rights","tag-protecting-consumers"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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