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Inside the Pentagon's $1.15 Trillion Bill, Lawmakers Fight Over Who Gets Deported

The base text is quiet on immigration. The 1,330 amendments filed against it are not.

Pablo Manríquez
Jun 30, 2026
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WASHINGTON — Thirteen hundred and thirty amendments. That’s how many members of the House filed in the two weeks after the Rules Committee opened the floodgates on the FY27 National Defense Authorization Act — and buried somewhere in that pile is the most aggressive fight over immigration enforcement Congress has staged since the start of the second Trump administration.

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