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Did Susan Collins secure funding for ICE body cameras?

Matches stated direction. She voted seven times to take up the April 2026 law with $20 million for immigration officers' body cameras, and for a June law listing them among ICE's uses; neither shows who put that in.

Susan M. Collins

ICE body cameras: the funding

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What they say

In both debates she said she secured funding for body cameras for ICE officers.

What the record shows ·

The Homeland Security funding law signed April 30, 2026, Public Law 119-86, sets aside $20 million for body-worn cameras for agents and officers doing immigration enforcement. She voted seven times to take that bill up; the Senate passed it without a recorded vote. On June 5 she also voted for S. 2, the Secure America Act, which passed 52 to 47 and became law June 10; it gives ICE another $38.5 billion, and lists body-worn cameras among the technology uses of $31.1 billion of that.

Limit: Neither law shows who put the camera money in. On October 6 she also cited money for the inspector general and for ICE training, which was not checked.

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  1. WGME CBS13/FOX23 debate, October 6: Collins on ICE body cameras (44:45)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1u58uiW8IeM&t=2685s

    CBS 13 News (WGME) · Published Oct 6, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    44:45-45:18. Described from the host's YouTube captions; no second transcript was found, so the words are not quoted.

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  2. WMTW debate, October 8: Collins on ICE body cameras (50:22)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHWVvlZCRXA&t=3022s

    WMTW-TV · Published Oct 8, 2026 · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    50:22-50:34. Described from the host's YouTube captions; no second transcript was found, so the words are not quoted.

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  3. Public Law 119-86, Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-119publ86

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 10, 2026

    Approved April 30, 2026. Section 4 sets the spending-table amounts under the ICE heading, and under CBP's Border Security Operations, to $0, and the Act has no ICE appropriation of its own (read in the enrolled text, BILLS-119hr7147enr). Section 109 of Division A adds $20,000,000 to the Office of the Secretary for body-worn cameras for agents and officers doing immigration enforcement. Division B covers the lapse that began on or about February 14, 2026.

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  4. 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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  5. 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.

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  6. S. 2, Secure America Act, Public Law 119-98https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/2

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026

    Sponsor Lindsey Graham; the 2026 reconciliation bill. Passed the Senate 52 to 47 on June 5, 2026 (Roll Call 163, with Collins Yea) and became law June 10.

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  7. Public Law 119-98, Secure America Acthttps://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/PLAW-119publ98

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Sep 25, 2026

    Approved June 10, 2026. Sections 102 and 202 give ICE $7,450,000,000 and $31,075,000,000, and Sections 101, 103 and 201 give CBP $9,550,000,000, $3,450,000,000 and $13,020,000,000. All of it is in addition to amounts otherwise available and stays available until September 30, 2029. Section 202 lists body-worn cameras among the uses of ICE's information technology money.

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