Grassley, Daines, Colleagues Put Forward Measure to Block Taxpayer Funded Payments to Illegal Immigrants

WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined Steve Daines’ (R-Mont.) amendment to the “National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022” to block President Biden’s reported plan to spend upwards of a billion dollars to provide $450,000 per person in taxpayer money for settlements for illegal immigrants.

“It’s plain unacceptable to consider payments of hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to people who violated our laws. Such a move would just worsen the already record-breaking border crisis, and undermine both common sense and the rule of law. These settlement payments should never have been considered in the first place, but because we can’t rely on the Biden administration to make the right decision, Congress needs to step in to ensure they don’t happen,” Grassley said.

For amendment text, click HERE. Daines also introduced the measure as a standalone bill. For bill text, click HERE.

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