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Donald Trump signed the Secure America Act into law in the Oval Office on Wednesday, providing $38 billion for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, $26 billion for Border Patrol and an additional $5 billion to cover unforeseen costs — a $70 billion package that funds both agencies through fiscal 2029 and ensures a virtually uninterrupted flow of money as the administration seeks to deport some one million people per year. The signature ended a nearly six-month fight over Department of Homeland Security funding, per the Korea Times. The Hill described the package as fully funding ICE and Border Patrol through the end of Trump's second term.
What's in the spend stack? $38 billion for ICE, $26 billion for Border Patrol and $5 billion for unforeseen costs, totalling roughly $69 billion, per the Korea Times. The three-bucket structure follows the administration's preferred breakdown — enforcement-first, border-second, contingency-third — and front-loads routine annual funding to remove the shutdown-leverage Democrats had been using.
How did the bill pass the House? House Republicans pushed the measure through by a 214-212 vote over the objections of Democrats, per the Korea Times. The two-vote margin is the tightest possible passage, signalling that several Republicans nearly defected — likely on the spending-level or the front-loading mechanism — but that party discipline ultimately held.
What was the six-month fight about? The DHS-funding impasse began with the shooting deaths of two US citizens, Alex Pretti and Renee Good, in January during federal immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis, per the Korea Times. Democrats began demanding changes to immigration enforcement after the shootings, creating an impasse that resulted in the longest agency shutdown in history before Republicans went it alone on funding.
What got cut from the package? The legislation had been sidetracked over $1 billion for White House security — including for Trump's new ballroom — and a $1.8 billion fund to compensate his allies who claim to be victims of political prosecution, per the Korea Times. Both proposals became politically toxic and were scrapped, which was the procedural unblock that let the underlying immigration-enforcement spend clear.
Why fiscal 2029 rather than annual? The fiscal-2029 horizon takes ICE and Border Patrol off the annual-appropriations cycle, neutralising the shutdown-leverage point Democrats had used and giving the agencies multi-year hiring and contracting visibility, per the Hill.
What's the political read? Locking in $70B specifically for deportation operations through 2029 makes the second-term immigration-enforcement stack a hardened piece of policy that survives even an adverse 2026 midterm result — a deliberate signature outcome rather than an incremental win.
Figures referenced: Donald Trump. — JudgeMarket.
