The U.S. Senate voted early on Wednesday to advance a $70 billion funding blueprint for immigration enforcement agencies, moving Republicans a step closer to unlocking a party-line bill to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol through the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term. Lawmakers voted 50–48 in predawn hours to adopt the non-binding budget resolution and send it to the House of Representatives, overcoming Democratic demands for new restrictions on enforcement operations.
President Trump said Thursday he has ordered the U.S. military to “shoot and kill” small Iranian boats that deploy mines to choke traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. President Trump’s Truth Social post came shortly after the U.S. military seized another tanker associated with the smuggling of Iranian oil. The president also said the military is intensifying mine-clearing operations in the critical waterway….