GOP advances ICE funding package after forcing Trump's controversial $2B fund into retreat

After delays spurred by shock announcements from the Trump administration, Senate Republicans have officially launched their play to fund immigration enforcement. The upper chamber took the first step in the last leg of the process to advance a roughly $70 billion package to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol after being derailed by the administration’s surprise "anti-weaponization" fund. It comes after uncertainty over whether Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s