Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., introduced legislation Wednesday to redirect $175 billion set aside for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection under President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” to affordable-housing programs.
Gomez called the funding an “anti-immigrant slush fund” and said the Make Housing Affordable and Defend Democracy Act would redirect the money toward lowering rents, expanding homeownership, and boosting construction of affordable housing nationwide.
“I’m introducing this bill because families across the country are being crushed by housing costs while Trump uses $175 billion to terrorize families with his own national police force,” Gomez said in a statement.
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