Trump's week in review: Pentagon reverses Mormon designation; Secure America Act signed
2. Trump signs Secure America Act into law
Trump signed the Secure America Act into law Wednesday. The measure was passed by the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday in a 214-212 vote that fell along party lines, with all support coming from Republicans and all opposition coming from Democrats and an independent.
The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate approved the bill in a 52-47 vote last week, with all but one Republican supporting it and no Democrats voting for it.
The legislation contains $9.5 billion to hire, employ, equip and train Border Patrol agents to “conduct functions other than immigration enforcement and customs functions” and nearly $7.5 billion to hire, pay, train and equip Homeland Security Investigations personnel. The measure reserves more than $108 million of this funding to “support the identification and rescue of victims of child sexual exploitation and abuse.”
As former NFL football player Tim Tebow explained in an X post Wednesday, the $108 million in funding related to child sex trafficking is part of the Renewed Hope Act he championed.
“Right now, 89,000 unidentified image series of children being sexually abused have been seen by law enforcement – but these children have yet to be identified and are still waiting to be found due to resource and manpower shortages,” he wrote. He praised the legislation for working to solve this problem.
Additional appropriations authorized by the Secure America Act include nearly $3.5 billion for border security, technology and screening, over $13 billion in funding for the hiring, paying, training and equipping of Border Patrol agents to conduct immigration enforcement functions and over $31 billion in funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement to carry out immigration enforcement activities.
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
