Congressional Republicans are moving forward with an approximately $70 billion party-line spending bill to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection through the end of President Trump's time in office. Buried in the legislation is $1 billion for the Secret Service tied to security infrastructure at Trump's White House ballroom project.
The bill comes one week after a bipartisan vote ended the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. ICE and CBP were largely left out of that deal after Democrats refused to back immigration enforcement funding without reforms, following the killing of two American citizens by federal agents earlier this year.
More than $60 billion of the total goes directly to immigration enforcement, further shielding ICE and CBP from congressional oversight. That follows $75 billion already allocated to the agencies through Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act last year.
The Secret Service provision, totaling $1 billion, is restricted by bill language to security infrastructure only and cannot be used for non-security elements of what the administration calls the East Wing Modernization Project. The White House says the construction itself is being funded through private donations.
"Due in part to the recent assassination attempt on President Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the proposal would provide the United States Secret Service with the resources they need to fully and completely harden the White House complex," White House spokesman Davis Ingle said in a statement to NPR.
Democrats pushed back sharply. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts wrote on X that the ballroom project had grown from "$200 million funded by shady donors to $1 BILLION from TAXPAYERS — snuck into the ICE bill by Senate Republicans." Some Republicans have separately proposed using taxpayer money for the ballroom's construction, though that effort has not gained traction.
The bill also includes nearly $1.5 billion for Justice Department operations, covering terrorism investigations, DEA activities and FBI work. Trump has asked Republicans to have the full package on his desk for signature by June 1.
