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You might hear from some skeptics that this will do no good because ICE can merely tap the $75 billion that Republicans gave it in their Big Ugly bill. True, but misleading. The current Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill includes an extra $10 billion for ICE. No reason in hell why ICE should have that. (In the long run, that $75 billion should also be clawed back.) You’ll also hear from skeptics that if Democratic senators don’t vote for the appropriations bill, they’ll be tying up funding for seven other departments, too. (The same appropriations bill funds Defense, Treasury, Heath and Human Services, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, and Education). The result will be another government shutdown. True, but the whole point here is leverage. Democrats never voted for the Big Ugly in the first place. This is their one opportunity to constrain ICE right now. Keep calling.