Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance is introducing legislation that would ban sanctuary cities from receiving federal housing grants as the migrant crisis surges across America.
FIRST ON FOX: Sen. J.D. Vance, R-Ohio, is introducing legislation Tuesday to ban sanctuary cities from receiving federal housing grants. The legislation, named the "No Community Development Block Grants for Sanctuary Cities Act," would amend the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to prevent sanctuary jurisdictions from becoming grantees for Community Development Block Grants.
Coincidentally, the CDBG program saw cuts in President Biden’s proposed Fiscal Year 2025 budget unveiled this week, with the program receiving a funding cut of $400 million for formula grants, a total of $2.9 billion, the National Low Income Housing Coalition wrote Tuesday. Sanctuary cities have become a hot topic of political debate as the migrant crisis at the southern border has worsened, with U.S. Customs and Border Protection tracking well over 1 million migrant encounters since Oct.
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