House GOP Plans $80B for Mass Deportations, Cuts Medicaid & SNAP to Fund Billionaire Tax Cuts

Yesterday, the Republican-led U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security pushed forward plans to spend over $80 billion in largely unrestricted funds to support Trump’s extreme deportation regime—a figure that included over $40 billion to build a wall on the Southern border. The GOP majority on the House Judiciary Committee also laid out its plans to support Trump’s costly mass deportation regime. House Republicans proposed spending tens of billions in taxpayer dollars while simultaneously advocating cuts of hundreds of billions from critical programs like Medicaid and SNAP. In response, Americans for Tax Fairness (ATF) released the following statement:

“Today, House Republicans made it clear they would rather fund Trump’s inhumane and wasteful mass deportation regime—to the tune of over $80 billion—to rip neighbors from their communities rather than preserve critical programs like Medicaid and SNAP that working families depend on,” said David Kass, ATF’s Executive Director. “The reality is our brothers and sisters without immigration documentation pay a higher effective tax rate than over 55 major corporations, including Tesla, and contribute significantly to our economy. Republicans want workers and families to accept massive cuts to healthcare, nutrition, and education benefits in order to give trillions in tax cuts to their billionaire donors. When costs rise, we will not let our undocumented neighbors be scapegoated—the real culprit is the GOP’s crooked fiscal policy.”

“The Judiciary Committee’s budget bill is a cruel and calculated attack on immigrants, families, and children. It prices people out of the American dream, erecting paywalls around the ability to seek refuge, safety, and lawful immigration. This isn’t about fiscal responsibility—it’s about enshrining cruelty into law, normalizing suffering and disappearances, and charging desperate families for a shot at survival. These fees are designed to box people out and deter lawful immigration altogether. Meanwhile, taxpayers will fund sprawling tent camps, mass disappearances, and an authoritarian system built on fear and erasure. Every member of Congress must reject this shameful blueprint for state-sponsored suffering,” said Kerri Talbot, Co-Executive Director of the Immigration Hub.