Eric McDaniel
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first heard Mar 2026
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Then on to their next challenge, renewing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which lets the government collect foreigners' communications abroad.
That fight got complicated, though, when Trump named a controversial pick to be acting director of national intelligence.
Lawmakers have until Friday to work it out.
Eric McDaniel, NPR News, Washington.
Mass deportations were a central campaign talking point for Trump, but it took basically six months to get here and they weren't quiet.
Public opinion started to turn on immigration enforcement after federal agents killed two American citizens in Minnesota early in the year.
And Democrats, of course, shut down the agency that oversees immigration enforcement for months in a failed effort to secure reforms like body cameras and limits on face covering, stuff like that.
Well, they're certainly accomplishing a big goal.
Three years of funding through the rest of Trump's term will insulate immigration enforcement from a lot of political pressure, right?
They can't hold funding back.
And mass deportations were a central campaign talking point for Trump.
But it took basically six months to get here and they weren't quiet.
Public opinion started to turn on immigration enforcement after federal agents killed two American citizens in Minnesota early in the year.
And Democrats, of course, shut down the agency that oversees immigration enforcement for months in a failed effort to secure reforms like body cameras and limits on face covering, stuff like that.
At one point, Republicans thought this could be a straightforward party line process.
Then President Trump launched the nearly $2 billion pot of taxpayer money that could be used to make payouts to, among others, January 6th insurrectionists.
That complicated the path to passage.
Lawmakers of both parties were upset.
And the fund was the target of multiple amendment votes during the all-day debate on this package.
Now the deal heads to the House, which is expected to take up the legislation and send it to the president's desk before leaving town this weekend.
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