A new House Republican bill would give the Trump administration the legislative green light to pull federal welfare funding for illegal immigrants from so-called “sanctuary” states and localities — if their officials refuse to help with mass deportations or other enforcement, The Post can reveal.
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) filed the Law Enforcement Solidarity Act in the House on Monday to condition federal funding for food, housing, health care and legal services on a jurisdiction’s coordination with the Department of Homeland Security.
“Law enforcement officers who respond to the emergency call from their fellow officers should be celebrated, not chastised,” Tenney told The Post. “Yet, Rochester city officials are seeking to penalize the RPD officers who quickly responded to assist ICE during a traffic stop, simply because of Rochester’s unlawful sanctuary city policies.”
“That’s why I’m introducing the Law Enforcement Solidarity Act to make federal funding conditional on allowing local law enforcement to cooperate with federal law enforcement,” she added. “No law enforcement officer, local or federal, should be abandoned because of reckless policies driven by the Left’s political agenda.”
The Federal Emergency Management Agency already told New York City officials this month that the US government was cutting $188 million in grants earmarked to deal with the migrant influx.
In all, the Big Apple is counting on $7.4 billion in federal funds for its fiscal year 2026 spending — roughly 6.4% of its total budget, New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli estimated earlier this year.
Tenney’s bill came ahead of an executive order President Trump signed Monday afternoon “to provide a list of sanctuary cities in which local officials are not complying” with the feds, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday.
The president is keen on pressuring Congress to codify the order, Leavitt also told pro-Trump influencers during a Monday briefing, so a new president doesn’t come in “eight years” later — and redo everything. --->READ MORE HERE
President Trump signed executive orders Monday evening, kicking off a crackdown on sanctuary jurisdictions such as Chicago, Los Angeles, and all of New York — after previously calling for their federal funding to be cut.
One order the 78-year-old inked behind closed doors in the Oval Office gives Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem 30 days to draw up a list of cities and states that “obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration laws.”
“Immediately following each publication… the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall notify each sanctuary jurisdiction regarding its defiance of Federal immigration law enforcement and any potential violations of Federal criminal law,” it instructs.
After that, federal agencies will scour their books for any funding — including grants and contracts — to revoke in coordination with the White House Office of Management and Budget.
If sanctuary jurisdictions don’t change their laws, “the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall pursue all necessary legal remedies and enforcement measures to end these violations and bring such jurisdictions into compliance with the laws of the United States,” the order says.
Two other parts of the order mandate the feds verify that illegal immigrants are not receiving public benefits — such as Social Security, food stamps, or disability pay — and override state and local laws deemed to favor “aliens over any groups of American citizens.”
One example cited in the order is the practice by some states of charging illegal migrants lower tuition to attend public colleges and universities than out-of-state American citizens.
A different order authorizes Bondi to pursue legal action, including potential criminal and civil suits, against state or local officials obstructing “criminal or immigration law enforcement.” --->READ MORE HERE
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