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13 October
5:58 pm

senator Collins, the chair of appropriations, voted to give seventy billion dollars to ICE without the reforms that Mainers deserved

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Troy Jackson, at Maine U.S. Senate General Election Debate 3 (WABI/WAGM)

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Why we checked itSpecific dollar figure ($70 billion) attributed to a Senate appropriations vote by Senator Collins for ICE funding — verifiable against voting records and appropriations legislation
What we foundCollins did vote for the ~$70 billion immigration enforcement funding package without the reforms Democrats sought, and she is chair of appropriations, but the $70 billion went to ICE and CBP combined — not to ICE alone — making the claim overstated in its attribution of the full amount to ICE.
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