Larsen rejects Trump’s agenda; demands ICE accountability

||| FROM THE OFFICE OF U.S. REP. RICK LARSEN |||

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Rick Larsen (WA-02) released the following statement on the Fiscal Year 2026 funding package, which provides full-year funding for jobs, education, health care and national security priorities along with two weeks of funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS):

“These funding bills are a rejection of Trump administration’s agenda.

“Eliminating the Department of Education? Rejected. Cutting life-saving medical research? Rejected. Gutting the Department of Labor, the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Homeless Assistance Grants? Rejected, rejected, rejected.

“Additionally, Democrats have successfully held back full-year funding for DHS until oversight and accountability for ICE is in the law. Providing two weeks of funding for DHS ensures that FEMA, air traffic control and the Coast Guard remain funded and operational while we negotiate a full-year funding bill that ensures ICE follows the same rules as every other law enforcement agency.

“I supported this package of funding because it rejects the President’s agenda and isolates DHS funding, which will be negotiated separately in the coming weeks.”

Larsen Demands ICE Oversight and Accountability

Rep. Larsen supports impeaching DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and negotiating a full-year funding bill for DHS that creates accountability and oversight of ICE operations and DHS detention facilities, including provisions to:

• Ensure ICE and CBP immediately leave Minneapolis and stop terrorizing American cities and communities;
• End arrests without judicial warrants and, outside of exigent circumstances, arrests at sensitive locations such as churches, shelters, schools, and courthouses;
• Ensure full, independent, and transparent investigations into all DHS-related shootings, including federal cooperation with state and local investigations, and ensure that federal agents are properly trained, appropriately supervised, and held fully accountable for their actions;
• End the detention and deportation of U.S. citizens;
• End the anonymity of federal agents by requiring them to remove their masks and provide identification;
• Ensure robust minimum standards of care at detention facilities – including access to medical care, clean water, edible food, and protections against abuse – and ensure independent investigations of deaths.