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‘Not Making Any Payments’: Trump Declares He’s Cutting Off Funds To Sanctuary Cities
The Daily Caller ^ | January 13, 2026 | Jason Hopkins

Posted on 01/13/2026 3:47:52 PM PST by Whatever Works

President Donald Trump declared that he will be cutting off federal funds to sanctuary jurisdictions across the country beginning in February.

The White House will cease all federal payments to city and state governments that restrict cooperation between local law enforcement and federal immigration authorities, Trump said Tuesday while addressing the Detroit Economic Club. The declaration follows intense national focus on immigration policy, with multiple lawsuits against enforcement surges racking up and Democrats demanding the Department of Homeland Security scale back activities.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: government; sanctuarycities; thisisabsurd; trump

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1 posted on 01/13/2026 3:47:52 PM PST by Whatever Works
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To: Whatever Works

Ouch. They’re going to have to turn to Venezuela for funding. Oh darn they can’t.


2 posted on 01/13/2026 3:48:58 PM PST by stanne
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To: Whatever Works

He’s trying to be nice ! These cities are snubbing the law and it is a form of insurrection .These clowns in the communist liberal bastions seem to forget the Supremacy Clause where federal law overides state laws.


3 posted on 01/13/2026 3:50:55 PM PST by mythenjoseph (Islam is not compatible within a free society.)
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It’s about damn time. He should have done this on day one.


4 posted on 01/13/2026 3:51:42 PM PST by Cobra64 (ECommon sense isn’t common anymore. )
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To: stanne

Not going to translate into a positive visual for the GOP going into the mid-term elections.


5 posted on 01/13/2026 3:52:01 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: DCPatriot

Only to Rinos.


6 posted on 01/13/2026 3:53:17 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: stanne

> They’re going to have to turn to Venezuela for funding. Oh darn they can’t. <

Well, there’s always Communist China. Maybe “China Mitch” McConnell can provide them with some leads.


7 posted on 01/13/2026 3:54:18 PM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: Whatever Works

Step 2 - shut down their post offices.

This WILL hurt. Libs are addicted to junk mail. 🤣


8 posted on 01/13/2026 3:54:31 PM PST by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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To: Whatever Works

I sooo voted for this!!

L


9 posted on 01/13/2026 3:55:39 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.s)
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To: DCPatriot

“ Not going to translate into a positive visual for the GOP going into the mid-term elections.”

I don’t see that as an issue. You think Republican voters want Trump to fund sanctuary cities w federal funding and … what?

Anyway, Trump is not looking at the midterms in any conventional way.


10 posted on 01/13/2026 3:57:42 PM PST by stanne
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To: Fledermaus; Kenny Bania; gundog; Larry Lucido

(Libs are addicted to junk mail.)

Newman: Well, there’s really no such thing as “junk mail”.... 📬


11 posted on 01/13/2026 4:00:44 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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The media is trying its darnedest to paint the Trump Administration as a Gestapo Force with ICE being the current Boogeyman.

No way in February is any Democrat-appointed judge not going to keep the money tap opened. Not a good look.

12 posted on 01/13/2026 4:09:12 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: Whatever Works
It begins.

It was a mistake for Trump not to do this back in 2017. Dare the Supreme Court to declare the Supremacy Clause null and void.

13 posted on 01/13/2026 4:10:36 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Whatever Works

Go ahead and file your law suits but in the mean time you get to use your own state funds or starve. And now no smarmy lib federal judge to bail you out with a bogus injunction. Sucks to be you blue states.


14 posted on 01/13/2026 4:13:26 PM PST by Dave911
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Trump Declares He’s Cutting Off Funds To Sanctuary Cities

Excellent!

With the establishment of Fraud in so many Prog Marxist Democrat States and Cities, Sanctuaries being at the top of the list, there will be less resistance to this action.

15 posted on 01/13/2026 4:15:40 PM PST by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won, Celebrate Recivilization!)
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To: Whatever Works

This is will be rightly challenged in court. He may not like it but Trump does not have the authority to cut off funds that were appropriated through legislation.

The most he can probably do under his executive authority is cut off funds that come from administrative agencies and are dedicated to the enforcement of immigration laws. For example Boston PD system has received a grant from ICE to help pay for temporarily housing illegal immigrants in their jails.

Trump is not the king of Congress’ purse strings. He must know this because he is not a stupid man


16 posted on 01/13/2026 4:21:17 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: DCPatriot

Maddow’s show has 1.8 mil viewers. The Five has 3.6 million

There are no huge building burning riots in Minnesota like 5 years ago

People are not buying it


17 posted on 01/13/2026 4:26:06 PM PST by stanne
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To: DCPatriot

Alrighty then. Aren’t you the Debbie Downer...


18 posted on 01/13/2026 4:37:22 PM PST by EMI_Guy ("You have to slow down to go fast." - Kenny Robertsonn's)
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To: Whatever Works

The AWFULs are protesting ICE in sanctuary Medford Oregon. Disgusting hyenas.


19 posted on 01/13/2026 4:52:06 PM PST by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: Whatever Works

GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


20 posted on 01/13/2026 4:56:04 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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