The House Judiciary Committee is considering a bill that would dramatically increase fees for asylum seekers in the United States. Key fee increases include a $1,000 application fee for asylum, increasing annually with inflation; a $550 fee for work authorization (renewable every six months); $500 for special immigrant juvenile status; and $3,500 for those sponsoring a juvenile for asylum.
The bill also proposes increasing the cost of nonimmigrant visas.
The bill would significantly boost funding for immigration enforcement and detention, increasing ICE's budget by over 350 percent to $45 billion over four years.
The legislation aims to transfer all antitrust enforcement authority from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to the Department of Justice (DOJ). This transfer would include all FTC antitrust actions, employees, assets, and funding, and would be overseen by Attorney General Bondi.
Elon Musk, CEO of DOGE, has expressed support for transferring antitrust enforcement from the FTC to the DOJ.