The Senate-Passed Reconciliation Bill Will be Catastrophic for Immigrant Women and Families: Update

On July 1, 2025, the Senate voted to pass its version of the Reconciliation (or spending) bill. The final Senate bill differs in some crucial respects from the bill originally passed by the House last month and contains several provisions that would be catastrophic to migrant women and expensive for states.

The Women’s Refugee Commission traced five of the most critical ways the House and original Senate reconciliation bills would be catastrophic for immigrant women and families. Some of these provisions, including those that punish states that provide healthcare to vulnerable immigrant populations using their own funds, have been removed. However, other damaging provisions have been added or maintained.

This updated factsheet identifies some of the most damaging provisions for migrant women and families of the final Senate bill, including allocating more than $150 billion dollars for immigration detention and oversight, upending protections for immigrant children in detention, defunding labor and delivery services for immigrant women, and eliminating access to Medicaid for refugees, people who have been granted asylum, and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking.