Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
This bill creates the "Make America Safe Again" grant program within the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act to fund state, local, and tribal law enforcement.
Grants may be used for hiring and bonuses, targeting vehicle thefts, prioritizing stringent sentences (including juveniles), using bail and pretrial detention, addressing fentanyl/drug crimes, detaining/deporting noncitizens who committed crimes, reducing forensic backlogs, and combating interstate child trafficking.
It authorizes the Attorney General to set application and audit rules, rescinds certain unobligated balances from a prior reconciliation-related appropriation, directs $500 million for FY2026 to the program, and requires redirecting DOJ diversity, equity, and inclusion grant funds to carry out this program.
Narrow but ideologically charged; modest funding helps, yet controversial content and fund redirection reduce bipartisan support and raise procedural hurdles.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill creates a substantive statutory grant authority with a defined purpose set and funding source, but leaves substantial operational detail to Attorney General rulemaking and provides limited performance, procedural, and legal integration detail.
Progressive objects to pretrial detention and juvenile stringent sentences
Progressive objects to pretrial detention and juvenile stringent sentences
Likely opposed overall due to emphasis on harsher sentencing, expanded pretrial detention, and immigration detention.
Supports measures targeting fentanyl and trafficking but worries about civil rights and youth justice impacts.
Cautiously receptive to boosting public-safety capacity but concerned about civil liberties, juvenile sentencing, and funding redirects.
Seeks stronger accountability and measurable outcomes.
Strongly favorable: funds law enforcement, supports tougher sentencing, detentions, and immigration enforcement, and redirects DEI spending toward public safety priorities.
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Reached or meaningfully advanced
Still ahead
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Still ahead
Narrow but ideologically charged; modest funding helps, yet controversial content and fund redirection reduce bipartisan support and raise procedural hurdles.
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Progressive objects to pretrial detention and juvenile stringent sentences
Narrow but ideologically charged; modest funding helps, yet controversial content and fund redirection reduce bipartisan support and raise…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill creates a substantive statutory grant authority with a defined purpose set and funding source, but leaves substantial operational detail to Attorney General rulemakin…
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