{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://adams.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-adams-statement-ice-funding-package", "Rep. Adams Statement on the ICE Funding Package", "2026-06-09", "2026", "2026-06", "Democrat", "House", "NC", "Alma S. Adams", "A000370", "adams.house.gov", "adams", "https://adams.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2014 On June 9, 2026, Congresswoman Alma S. Adams, Ph.D. (NC-12) voted against the passage of the latest Republican reconciliation package that would allocate roughly $70 billion to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP).\n\n\u201cI am not blind to the chaos ICE brings to every city it enters,\u201d said Congresswoman Adams. \u201cLives have been lost, businesses closed, and families split apart. When ICE and CBP came to Charlotte, a record 20,000 children were absent from school. There is no chance I would have voted to provide the president with a $70 billion check to continue terrorizing our communities.\u201d\n\nReconciliation is a unique process used to pass certain budget related bills through Congress with a simple majority vote.\n\nFederal appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security were signed into law on April 30th of this year after a historically long department shutdown, but none of that funding was allocated to ICE or CBP.\n\nBefore 2025, ICE maintained an annual budget of roughly $10 billion. House Rule 1, or the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) allocated an extra $75 billion to ICE for the expansion of its workforce, detention facilities, and enforcement operations over the next four years. The new reconciliation package directs another $70 billion ICE, U.S. Border Patrol, and the Office of the Secretary budget over the next 3 years.\n\n\u201cThis reconciliation package is a partisan bill that does nothing to address the needs of American taxpayers,\u201d continued Congresswoman Adams.\u201cNot only will it pave the way for more corruption the bill does nothing to prohibit budget allocations for an \u2018anti-weaponization\u2019 slush fund, but it will give the Trump administration more inhumane deportation power with lower guardrails and less accountability.\u201d\n\nICE has arrested more than 6,000 people in North Carolina since Trump took office last January. 1,300 of those arrests occurred in November of 2025 during Operation Charlotte\u2019s Web, a week-long immigration enforcement campaign in Charlotte, North Carolina.\n\nCongresswoman Alma Adams and other North Carolina officials have demanded answers from DHS over the purpose and results of the raids but have not received a response.", 1, "2026-06-27T21:44:12Z", "2026-06-27T22:11:26Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://adams.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-adams-statement-ice-funding-package"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.474237699061632, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}