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Gone are GOP-led efforts to curb environmental rules, attempts to restrict federal judges' powers and plans to bulk up immigration enforcement.
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WCMH Columbus on MSNOhio bill aims to require public officials to comply with ICECurrently, across the country, ICE agents typically do not need a warrant to arrest an individual in public if they have probable cause, but do on private property. The bill states all its provisions are “subject to the protections afforded under the United States Constitution and the Ohio Constitution.”
The Senate voted 51-49 to open debate on the One Big Beautiful Bill, bringing it one step closer to landing on Trump's desk ahead of the self-imposed deadline.
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The legislation for Trump's agenda on taxes, health care, immigration, energy and more would add $3.3 trillion to the deficit over a decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Although some Connecticut lawmakers began the session in favor of certain enforcement efforts against immigrants with criminal histories, they are now balking at an enforcement system they see as
The Senate plowed ahead Sunday on President Donald Trump’s massive tax and immigration agenda as Republicans tried to swat away challenges.
The Senate burns the midnight oil hoping to pass Trump’s spending agenda, the man accused of fatally stabbing four college students in Idaho appears to have accepted a plea deal, and the city of Los Angeles is again engrossed in a legal battle over immigration.
The major tax-cut and spending bill that Republicans hope to bring to final passage in the U.S. House of Representatives this week would devote an unprecedented $170 billion to immigration enforcement,
Both Democratic U.S. senators from Arizona, along with the rest of the chamber's Democrats, voted against the Trump-backed "One Big Beautiful Bill."
The Visible Identification Standards for Immigration-Based Law Enforcement Act, or VISIBLE Act of 2025, would prohibit federal immigration agents, known as “ICE,” and other Department of Homeland Security officials from concealing their identities while operating in public spaces.