WATCH: Baldwin Fights to Fund Homeland Security & Leave Door Open to Reining in ICE

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) spoke on the Senate floor after Republicans again blocked legislation to fund critical agencies at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) like the Coast Guard, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA), while leaving the door open to finish negotiations on reining in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Today, Senate Democrats again offered a path forward to strip funding for ICE and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) from the rest of the Department of Homeland security, ensuring critical agencies like TSA, FEMA, and the Coast Guard are funded while giving Republicans and Donald Trump more time to listen to the American people and get on board with commonsense reforms at ICE that would protect Americans. Senate Republicans blocked this effort for the second time in a week.

After the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Senator Baldwin announced that she would not support any additional funding for DHS without increased transparency, accountability, and stronger guardrails to rein in ICE. Senator Baldwin also called on Secretary Noem to resign immediately. Two-thirds of Americans say ICE and Border Patrol have gone "too far" with their tactics. A Marquette Law School poll found 6 in 10 Americans disapprove of the job ICE is doing, while 3 in 4 Americans support making changes at ICE.

Senator Baldwin also co-sponsors a bill, the PUBLIC SAFETY Act, to redirect almost $75 billion in funding passed in the Republicans' One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and send it instead to local law enforcement to help hire and train 200,000 local cops in communities across the U.S.

A full recording of the Senator's floor speech is available here.

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