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Did Collins support DHS de-escalation training funds?

Matches stated direction. The law allocated $2 million for DHS de-escalation training; Collins backed seven failed motions to take up the bill, which later passed the Senate by voice vote.

Susan M. Collins

DHS de-escalation training funds

Matches stated direction

What they say

Collins said she increased funding by millions for ICE training, including de-escalation.

What the record shows ·

The April 30, 2026 law allocated $2 million through federal training centers for DHS de-escalation training, including ICE and CBP. Collins backed seven failed motions to take up the bill; final Senate passage was by voice vote.

Limit: This verifies funding and procedural support, not an increase, Collins’s authorship, actual spending or training results.

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  1. WABI/WAGM Senate debate, October 13, 2026, about 63:32https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cXhqabYBF4&t=3812s

    WABI / WAGM · Published Oct 13, 2026 · Reviewed Nov 1, 2026

    Paraphrase from one saved native-caption copy, cues 1121–1124. Overlapping cue durations locate the passage; they are not exact speech boundaries.

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  2. Congressional Record, January 22, 2026, Book II, H1682, Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (document)

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Jan 22, 2026 · Reviewed Nov 1, 2026

    H1682 (PDF page 330), Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC), Operations and Support, Law Enforcement Training: $2 million for DHS de-escalation training, including ICE and CBP personnel. This is a funding allocation, not evidence it increased over prior funding, was spent or produced training results.

    official legislative record

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  3. Public Law 119-86, section 4 and Division A, Title IVhttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ86/html/PLAW-119publ86.htm

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Published Apr 30, 2026 · Reviewed Nov 1, 2026

    Signed April 30, 2026. Section 4 gives the January 22 spending statement conference-statement effect for allocation and implementation. The separate ICE and CBP Border Security Operations exclusions do not remove FLETC’s allocation. This is not an ICE-only operating appropriation or evidence of Collins’s authorship.

    official legislative record

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  4. Senate roll call votes 18, 38, 39, 47, 54, 59, 71 and 74, 119th Congress, 2nd sessionhttps://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/vote_menu_119_2.htm

    U.S. Senate · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026

    The Senate's own vote records (vote_119_2_00018.xml and so on), read September 25, 2026. Votes 38 to 74, February 12 to March 26, 2026, are the seven cloture votes on the motion to proceed to H.R. 7147; each was rejected under the three-fifths rule, and each lists Collins (R-ME) Yea. Vote 18, January 30, is Sanders Amendment 4290 to H.R. 7148, rejected 49 to 51, with Collins Yea.

    official legislative record

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  5. H.R. 7147, Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026, Public Law 119-86https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/7147

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026

    Sponsor Tom Cole. The action list records the seven failed cloture votes, Senate passage with an amendment by voice vote on March 27, 2026 (March 26 in the law's printed history), and enactment on April 30.

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