Bloomberg reporting this:
“Regarding the detention beds, a third congressional aide said the deal would actually increase funding for those beds by about 5,000 over last year’s record levels and said there would be enough flexibility built in to meet Trump’s request for 52,000 beds.”
WSJ reporting this:
“The bill would provide funding for about 5,000 more beds than the last spending bill funded but specifies an average daily population that Democrats said would require ICE to reduce the number of beds over the next seven months, aides said. However, the agency could transfer money, as it has been doing, to use more beds.”
Right now it seems that both sides (DEM/REP) are pushing their version of the detention bed issue to the media.
Dems saying they lowered the cap, Reps saying flexibility to increase the bed count.