{"id":94,"date":"2026-01-30T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/sanders-secures-vote-on-his-amendment-to-cut-75-billion-in-ice-funding-and-redirect-those-funds-to-medicaid\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:25:00","slug":"sanders-secures-vote-on-his-amendment-to-cut-75-billion-in-ice-funding-and-redirect-those-funds-to-medicaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/sanders-secures-vote-on-his-amendment-to-cut-75-billion-in-ice-funding-and-redirect-those-funds-to-medicaid\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanders Secures Vote on His Amendment to Cut $75 Billion in ICE Funding and Redirect Those Funds to Medicaid"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<br><p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today secured a Senate vote on his amendment to the government funding package to repeal the $75 billion funding increase for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) \u2014 originally included in Trump\u2019s \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill\u201d (OBBB). The amendment would use those savings to reverse Medicaid cuts in the OBBB, preventing 700,000 Americans from losing their health care.<\/p><p>\u201cAs we speak, ICE agents are shooting American citizens in cold blood, breaking down doors to arrest people, and sending 5-year-olds to detention centers, all in clear violation of our Constitution,\u201d <strong>Sanders said.<\/strong> \u201cInstead of funding Trump\u2019s domestic army, we should instead use that money to prevent hundreds of thousands of Americans from losing the health care they desperately need by investing in Medicaid. I urge my colleagues to support this commonsense amendment and stand up for the rights and dignity of all Americans.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<br>\r\n<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/newswire\/sanders-secures-vote-on-his-amendment-to-cut-75-billion-in-ice-funding-and-redirect-those-funds-to-medicaid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today secured a Senate vote on his amendment to the government funding package to repeal the $75 billion funding increase for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) \u2014 originally included in Trump\u2019s \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill\u201d (OBBB). The amendment would use those savings to reverse Medicaid cuts in the OBBB, preventing 700,000 Americans from losing their health&hellip;","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":74,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wokeantifa.org\/topics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}