A soccer mom takes on ICE
Today, Explained
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🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | There's a lot of stuff in Donald Trump's one big, beautiful bill, but if you're looking for the biggest game changer in the way our federal government functions, you'd probably want to focus on ICE. |
| 0:11.2 | The bill, as approved by Congress, provides 175 billion U.S. dollars for immigration enforcement. |
| 0:19.4 | That is more money than most countries spend on their |
| 0:22.1 | entire militaries in a year. In fact, that is more money than every country on Earth except |
| 0:28.2 | the United States and China spends on its military in a year. And unlike, say, no tax on tips, |
| 0:34.8 | people really hate ice. |
| 0:37.6 | Their agents were met by protesters in Washington, D.C. last night. |
| 0:44.5 | People showed up outside Alligator, Alcatraz to protest this weekend. |
| 0:49.7 | And down in Southern California, soccer moms are showing up to harass ICE agents. |
| 0:54.0 | You're going to hear from one of them on today, Explained from Vox. |
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