Some Democrats went along with the MAGA movement to pass a bill some of their own colleagues and constituents said will suspend due process and increase racial profiling.
Sen. James Lankford has been trying to pass legislation in response to an industry he believes will leave small towns without many pharmacy options.
The White House’s temporary pause on trillions in federal spending could set up a court fight over executive authority and Congress’s control of the purse.
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The bill would require law enforcement to detain immigrants without legal status arrested for crimes including larceny and shoplifting.
The introduction of this legislation comes on the heels of Congress passing Britt’s Laken Riley Act.
That means Congress would not only have to act to give Trump the ability to dissolve agencies in the first place, but it’d also have to approve any proposed Trump plan to eliminate FEMA.
The bill, which has divided Democrats, would require law enforcement to detain noncitizens who commit primarily theft-related crimes.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed into law a bill named for murdered Georgia nursing student, Laken Riley.
The Laken Riley Act passed Congress with bipartisan support as Trump makes good on his campaign-trail vow to deport illegal immigrants — beginning with those already charged or convicted of crimes, of whom more than 660,000 were present and not in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody as of last year.
The bill is named after Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, who was killed in 2024 by a Venezuelan national in the U.S. illegally.