Hey, everybody, it's Friday, May 22nd, 2026. I'm Allison Gill, and this is Bean's Talk.

Hey, everybody, happy Friday. Dana's out. It's just me and it's just you and I am really excited

because my favorite Fridays are the ones where Republicans wreck their own corrupt shit

with even stupider corrupt shit. In this case, they're wrecking their own corrupt

overfunding of ICE and Customs and Border Protection with the stupider, more corrupt,

$1.8 billion slash fund from the IRS, right?

The IRS Todd Blanche special, where he's going to pay criminals and terrorists and cop beaters.

It's so bad.

This thing is so bad.

It's pissed off so many Republicans on the Hill that they now want to add provisions into their budget reconciliation bill.

You remember, Democrats shut down the DHS.

They said, we are not giving another dime to ICE.

ICE has another $100 plus billion, ice and customs border protection, I have $130 billion from the big ugly bill, the OBBBA.

You don't need more money for ICE. So shut it down, shut down DHS, right? Because you don't need more

money. Ice was already funded at double its capacity through 2029 from the Big Beautiful bill.

But Republicans love ICE and they wanted to fund it at five times its capacity through

2029.

But we said no, we're not going to vote to fund anything.

So in order to get DHS open, the Republicans caved for once.

The Democrats stood strong and they won and the Republicans caved and they funded DHS without ICE and Customs and Border Protection. Yay.

So then, as part of that, Republicans were like, well, we still got to fund ICE, even though it's extremely unpopular and it's a midterm election year. We still got to fund ICE and Customs and Border Protection. We'll do it through budget reconciliation, which means we don't need 60 votes, right? We can do it with a 51 vote threshold in the Senate. We don't have to worry about the filibuster. We don't have to worry about Democrats blocking us. We do it all by ourselves. We're going to fund ICE even more, five times its capacity, not just two times its capacity. We want to fund it at five times its capacity through

2029. So, okay, they had all that set and ready to go, right? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And

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