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.

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    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.

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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.

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        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.

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    Well, then the Left will get what they want! No immigration enforcement! LOL

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      Abuse minorities with impunity? There will be so many volunteers they’ll have to hold a lottery.

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      Probably a depressingly high amount. I doubt there’s a lot of ICE agents that see it as just a job instead of a license to fuck with brown people with impunity.

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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.

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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.

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        They were actually improving economy wise just before Hitler, then just like with the US right now the fascist dipshits fucked it all up.

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        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?

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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.

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        Remember, we’re paying them to house our deportees in nightmare conditions, almost all of whom have never committed a crime.

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    Massive tax cuts for the rich, combined with massive domestic spending increases. I wonder what that will do?

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    Don’t lie. They’ll find a way to fund this shit cause it ruins everything for every minority. Always got infinite money for fucked up shit. Never any to help people.

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      The Big Beautiful Bill is evidence enough alone of that. An absolutely horrific amount of cuts for programs that help people, ostensibly to “offset” the tax cuts for the rich, but it still balloons the deficit by $3.5 trillion.

      There’s a reason Trump is trying to pressure the Federal Reserve. The wealthy don’t care if the dollar fails or goes into hyperinflation: they own assets which they can trade for currencies other than dollars. If the dollar spirals out of control for everyone else well “whoopsie doodles” they’ll say.

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        There’s a damn good reason the price of gold went up by ~50% in about five years. And looking at the state of the world right now… buying more of it is probably not a bad idea. The more unstable the world, the greater the attraction of gold. The price will keep rising.

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    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?