The Department of Homeland Security has requested an extra $2 billion to meet its needs by the end of September

Immigration and Customs Enforcement could run out of money as soon as next month amid the Trump administration’s ramped-up efforts to deport unauthorized immigrants.

While there are more than three months left in the fiscal year, one estimate has found that the agency is already $1 billion over budget, according to Axios. Legislators in both parties have raised concerns about the speed at which the agency is spending its funds, which may prompt Donald Trump to seek additional funds from other agencies to support his deportation efforts.

Lawmakers have stated that the department responsible for ICE, the Department of Homeland Security, overseen by Secretary Kristi Noem, could violate the law if it continues to spend at current levels.

  • Jessica
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    4522 hours ago

    As mentioned in the article, they will invoke emergency powers to gain access to more money. The Big Beautiful Bill would give them everything they need as well.

    They’ll print the money to fund their cleansing until it’s value is nothing, and their supporters will cheer them on into ruin.

    They’ve only just begun their campaign of terror on the populace. They still have several other groups of minorities they need to take care of. The whole “First they came for…” is playing out right before our eyes.

    • @Freshparsnip@lemm.ee
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      All while people starve in the streets and grocery prices skyrocket. But all the struggling Trump supporters will be reassured that the big bad immigrants are going away.

      • Jessica
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        1321 hours ago

        This is why a new war is needed. Once they are unable to afford to disappear people en masse, they’ll need a new distraction. Just jingle some keys in front of them as you pick their pockets of rights and dignity, and they’ll be satisfied.

  • @Carmakazi@lemmy.world
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    I remember reading somewhere that the Third Reich was pervasively cooking the books and scamming their own financial sector to support their war and genocide, basically from beginning to end.

    The secret police will find the money.

    • @floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      It’s worth considering that a good reason they decided to start invading other countries is because their economy was in the absolute fucking toilet. The interwar period Was nothing but economic failure for Germany, mostly because they had these gigantic sanctions and embargo and reparation payments to deal with. All that war spending didn’t really help that much.

      • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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        1022 hours ago

        So that’s actually a subtopic of WW2 that I haven’t dug into much - I know a bunch of the general economic context, but not the fiscal policies they were using to support their aims. Did the Nazis just issue shitloads of bonds and then say “yeah we’ll figure out the bill later, nbd”, or what?

    • @Madison420@lemmy.world
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      You assume he cares, he doesn’t they just won’t pay employees while he starts another email fundraiser in which he keeps the profit.

    • @ScizorCipher@lemm.ee
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      Our country hasn’t even started the bombing campaign on Iran and we’ve hit 37 trillion in debt. We are so fucked

  • @garretble@lemmy.world
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    131 day ago

    It’s weird that when I run out of money I just don’t have more money.

    From where are they taking this extra $1B?

  • @BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz
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    So? WHY do you think we cut EVERY OVERSIGHT AGENCY investigating Elon Musk, the DEPARTMENT of my Child’s Education, people who TELL ME IF A TORNADO WILL KILL ME, FEMA and others? So we could AFFORD to have Unmarked Masked Men Kidnap Children!

  • TomMasz
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    31 day ago

    That’s their budget on paper. Their real budget is infinity.