Democrats moved Tuesday to slash by 60% the amount of space available to hold illegal immigrants at Immigration and Customs Enforcement jails nationwide while doing away with ICE family housing centers, using President Trump’s own policy of turning away people at the border as a rationale for cutting an agency he wants to expand.

The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security on Tuesday approved by voice vote the 2021 funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, which includes money to make 22,000 ICE beds available daily — down from the 54,000 beds that were in use in an average day last August.