Ilya Sheyman

Dad | Midwesterner | Tweets my own

[Ilya Sheyman @iSheyman]

People in Iran deserve freedom and dignity, not US bombs falling on their heads in an illegal regime-change war.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING MS NOW:

ICE has detained over 500 babies and toddlers under Trump.

On an average day, ICE has 25 children aged 3 or younger in custody, according to joint research by MS NOW and The Marshall Project. https://t.co/JNZlfb7afy

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

We need a new US foreign policy that promotes peace and solidarity.

My conversation with @ezraklein https://t.co/EZQIm20yJ7 via @NYTOpinion

[Ilya Sheyman @iSheyman]

@mattduss @ezraklein @nytopinion 💯

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

In the last 18 months, Congress has given DHS $240 billion — a quarter of a trillion.

[Todd Schulte @TheToddSchulte]

This means, with expected members not in town, the most likely outcome is…every other Republican Member is a deciding vote

[Todd Schulte @TheToddSchulte]

Real talk.

If House Republicans don’t want a weaponization fund, then a few of them can block it by voting no on reconciliation. That’s the leverage.

No press release, no other bill, no discharge petition (DOA in Senate) will do anything.

This is the last leverage point.

[Homeland Dems @HomelandDems]

The last time DHS surged an American city they killed 2 U.S. citizens.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Federal agents killed two American citizens in Minneapolis. Tear-gassed and brutalized families. Detained thousands of children and pregnant women.

How do Republicans respond? At nearly 5AM they passed $70 billion more for ICE, no questions. No reforms. No accountability.

[Catherine Cortez Masto @CortezMasto]

Here's the truth: ICE and Border Patrol already have funding. Republicans want to hand these agencies $70 billion *on top* of the $150 billion they received last year. And they’re using this money to tear Nevada families apart.

That's funding that could go toward lowering monthly health premiums or power bills, or providing school lunches for our kids. Nevadans are struggling with high costs, we should be focused on that.

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Senate Republicans just voted to give billions more of taxpayer money to Trump's lawless ICE operations.

The American people deserve a govt that puts them first.

Today, Trump & his rubber stamp Republicans once again failed them.

My full statement ⬇️

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

I’m leaving the Capitol now at 530am after 19 hrs of votes where Senate Republicans passed $70B for ICE/CBP with no accountability after killings of Alex Pretti/Renee Good and no reforms after chaos at Delaney Hall. Zero dollars to help your family pay bills and high gas prices.

[Todd Schulte @TheToddSchulte]

Accurate, brutal headline.

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Freedom is rare. Stretching back beyond the horizon of recorded history, most humans who have ever lived have lived at the mercy of lords and masters and kings.

But we're a nation founded on the rejection of kingdom. We're a nation founded on the radical idea that all human beings have a natural right to liberty.

[Senate Democrats @SenateDems]

REMINDER: This is what @SenateGOP is fighting to shovel an additional $70 billion dollars toward.

[Homeland Dems @HomelandDems]

Republicans are set to reward the agency that has racially profiled, assaulted, illegally detained, and killed U.S. citizens with $70 billion of your tax dollars.

[Ilya Sheyman @iSheyman]

He's correct:

[Burgess Everett @burgessev]

Wow - Cassidy signs onto brief stating, in part: "The Anti-Weaponization Fund presents an immediate and dire threat to our constitutional order and the authority of Congress. Indeed, among other purposes, the Fund is designed to compensate the insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. The existence of the Fund strikes at the core of Congressional authority and our Constitutional order"

[Todd Schulte @TheToddSchulte]

NEW @FWDus statement on Senate vote-a-rama on the incredibly harmful, politically toxic $71 billion more for ICE & CBP reconciliation bill…

[Senate Democrats @SenateDems]

Tomorrow, Republicans are forcing through another $70 billion for ICE and CBP.

Legal residents still locked in detention camps. Businesses closed. Parents grabbed from their kids.

Yet STILL NO REFORMS.

@SenTinaSmith: "This is not how our democracy is supposed to work."

[Jennifer Bendery @jbendery]

Per Dems on the Senate Budget Committee, who cite OMB data, as of the end of April 2026:

Of the $75 billion given to ICE in the Big Beautiful Bill, $63 billion remained.

Of the $65 billion given to CBP in the bill, $37 billion remained. https://t.co/oo5tzOaQa8

[Jennifer Bendery @jbendery]

Well this is false. As of the end of April, ICE + CBP were still sitting on $100 billion!