Tom Homan applauds ‘big beautiful bill’, says legislation would ‘solidify the success’ at the border

In an exclusive interrogation with Fox News Digital, Trump borderline czar Tom Homan outlined the advancement that has been made astatine the border, and elaborate however the president’s "big beauteous bill" could solidify items that person improved borderline security. 

"All those accessories connected the border, we tin fastener it successful to marque it permanent," Homan explained. "So we're going to enactment much borderline walls up. We'll enactment much h2o buoys in. That's going to prevention lives, right, due to the fact that radical spot the h2o buoys, you can't get implicit them, which galore radical won't effort to spell into that river, which means we prevention lives."

White House 'border czar' Tom Homan speaks with reporters extracurricular the White House successful Washington, DC, connected March 7, 2025.  (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

"[The bill] is going to prevention lives," Homan said. "It's going to adhd exertion to the existing caller borderline partition that the Biden medication didn't enactment into the wall. So, it's a astute wall, but Biden stopped the tech instrumentality from getting embedded successful the partition to fto america cognize erstwhile idiosyncratic approaches that wall, climbs the wall, digs nether that wall."

Trump’s borderline czar besides pointed retired an important constituent of the legislation, which provides backing for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to acquisition beds for amerciable migrants who are detained.

"Right present we've got 50,000 radical successful custody. We're lone funded for $34,000. ICE is already successful a spread astatine $500 million. We request 100,000 beds. This measure does that."

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Border czar Tom Homan defends the Trump administration's prime to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. (C-Span)

The president’s "big beauteous bill" contains galore components of Trump’s agenda, including borderline security, taxation policy, indebtedness limit, and defence spending. It has had issues making it done the legislative process arsenic immoderate House Republicans person advocated for provisions specified arsenic authorities and section taxation (SALT) deduction caps and spending cuts. 

President Trump spoke retired strongly against immoderate cuts to Medicaid oregon SALT deduction caps during his sojourn to Capitol Hill to rally enactment for the measure connected Tuesday.

As for the border, GOP members whose districts enactment the confederate borderline spoke retired successful enactment of the legislation. 

"It whitethorn beryllium a large and beauteous bill, but it has the musculus and backbone of historical borderline information and the quality to deport the millions of transgression illegals Joe Biden fto locomotion into our country," Congressman Darrell Issa, R-California, told Fox News Digital. 

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Texas Republican Rep. Tony Gonalzes, who represents the largest borderline territory successful Congress, besides highlighted borderline elements of the legislation. 

"These are precisely the priorities I person fought bony and nail for during the past 4 years, and I’m arrogant to spot we’re yet getting it done," Gonzales told Fox News Digital. "My communities on the borderline volition beryllium overmuch amended off, and I’m arrogant to person played a cardinal portion successful making that happen."

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Despite immoderate GOP enthusiasm, sources connected Capitol Hill accidental determination is inactive a agelong mode to spell earlier the portion of authorities reaches the president’s desk. 

Preston Mizell is simply a writer with Fox News Digital covering breaking news. Story tips tin beryllium sent to Preston.Mizell@fox.com and connected X @MizellPreston