John,

The House passed a series of funding bills last week, including funding for human needs programs such as housing, public health, K-12 education, child care, and mental health assistance. Our coalition worked hand in hand with our congressional allies to get increased funding along with some important guardrails to rein in this brutal administration’s funding freezes and missallocation of funds.

These victories are proof that our organizing and activism work. We achieved these victories, and we can achieve more. We need to.

The House also passed a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security and ICE. We must fight back against proposals to increase funding for ICE enforcement and detention. ICE has terrorized our communities over the past year. We’ve seen the images of people―including small children―being violently detained, searched, and, in the case of Renee Good, murdered. We cannot continue to fund an agency dedicated to this kind of wanton recklessness.

We’re continuing to work with our Senate allies to rein in ICE and other anti-immigrant enforcers in the Department of Homeland Security, and we need your support before the vote.

Rush a donation of $5 or more to power our campaign to block additional funding for ICE.

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In the Big Brutal Bill passed in July, ICE funding was supercharged by $45 billion. That money is fueling ICE terrorizing our communities and funding more ICE detention facilities. Democrats in the House fought to put in guardrails to help rein in ICE, but despite these efforts the House passed a bill with additional funding and inadequate protections against wrongdoing, on a nearly party-line vote.

Right now, our fight turns to the Senate, where the DHS/ICE funding bill would need 60 votes to pass. We’ve fought for human needs programs and won. This is a tough fight, but we cannot stop the fight against the harms ICE is inflicting on local communities. But we can only do it with your help.

Donate $5 today to fight for our neighbors, families, and loved ones by telling the Senate to rein in ICE.

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Thank you for all you do,

Meredith Dodson
Senior Public Policy Director, Coalition on Human Needs

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John,

The House of Representatives voted last week to increase funding for the Department of Homeland Security and ICE. This is not what we wanted, but it’s not over yet. The legislation still must pass the Senate by a 60-vote threshold.

ICE is a paramilitary force that is terrorizing our communities. From nighttime raids to murdering peaceful observers, to going onto school grounds and traumatizing children, they cannot continue to be funded to terrorize our communities at the expense of critical human needs programs, like Medicaid and SNAP―two programs that saw draconian cuts in order to increase ICE’s budget in the Big Brutal Bill.

We need the Senate to reject even more funding for ICE. And we need your help to power the fight.

Donate $5 today to power our fight to demand Congress hold ICE accountable, starting by rejecting the 2026 DHS and ICE funding bill.

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Activism works. Other essential human needs programs, such as housing and education, were funded in bills passed by the House this past week, and negotiators rejected massive cuts and elimination of whole programs sought by many Republican members of the House and Donald Trump.

The remaining funding bills will be voted on in the Senate next week, before the Friday, January 30th cutoff date for government funding. This means we only have a few days to push for a separate vote on DHS and ICE funding, which is our best shot at stopping the continued funding of ICE’s terror campaign.

Time is of the essence, and we need to focus all of our resources on lobbying the Senate now. Rush a donation of $5 today to help us succeed in defeating ICE funding.