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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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

I’m sure the Gestapo wouldn’t mind being violent to brown people for free.

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  • [–] 87 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    About time we call DOGE on them!! Has anyone got their number?? /s

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  • [–] 84 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    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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  • 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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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Over 1bn, and they've only kidnapped about 51,000 people. What a fucking waste of money and time.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Genuinely hope these gravy seals get their Nuremberg

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 13 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Lol, i wonder how many of them will volunteer to work for free?

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Don't worry, they'll take that funding out of Medicare, education, transportation, etc.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Where's the DOGE Goblin when you need him?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Somebody needs to go through their paperwork and doxx every one of those cunts.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Oh no how unfortunate.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    What's their budget for victim storage in El Salvador?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Going to see a lot of paid time off cancelled.

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  • [+] -16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

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  • [+] -14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ultra LIBERAL Reddit where you can't have a different opinion? I thought Lemmy would be different...

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    [–] [S] 148 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    MAGA complain about govt spending is off the walls.

    MAGA create DOGE to cut a lot of "government waste".

    MAGA waste taxpayer funds on parades and security theater.

    MAGA has ICE arrest children at school, old people in court houses.


    If you're hampering ICE right now, keep it up.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ways to hamper:

    • If you see a bunch of masked people without ID or uniforms wearing tacticool gear and carrying guns, call 911. Maybe the police won't care, but at least you'll be wasting their time, because they will have to roll out in force to check it out. Make fascists fight other fascists.
    • If you can open carry, do it. A dozen Gestapo are going to turn tail and flee when confronted by a crowd of armed citizens. If you can't open carry, bring "sporting equipment." Golf, baseball, and hockey are very popular.
    • Be loud and angry. "Being peaceful" and "being loud and angry" are not mutually exclusive.
    • Take video, and then post it. Invest in a dashcam for bonus points.
    • Even if you can't (or don't want to) do the above, show up. Your presence gives other citizens more power.
    • If you can't show up, that's also okay. Make room in your home for people who may need shelter. Have first aid and food/water at the ready. Most of the efforts required to win a war are not front line troops. Observe, look for opportunities to resist, and take them.
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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    If you see a bunch of masked people without ID or uniforms wearing tacticool gear and carrying guns, call 911. Maybe the police won’t care, but at least you’ll be wasting their time, because they will have to roll out in force to check it out. Make fascists fight other fascists.

    Also post "active shooter!" simultaneously all over your local area's social media. Bystanders and people targeted by ICE will hopefully GTFO quick.

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  • [–] 70 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    “1bn over budget” seems like they have already run out of money?

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And there is the part that both left and right kind of ignored; deporting a thousand people costs millions, deporting a million people costs billions. Deporting 20 million people wrecks your economy for both cost and now-missing labor.

    It's economic suicide that any sane leader would have seen coming from a suns distance away, but here we are with cheeto

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    The way the Nazis did it was they at first had the Jews pay for the privilege of being extradited, with most of what they owned.

    Later on their tactics evolved a bit more and more.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    DOGE? ....hello? Is DOGE around? ... Hello?

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    [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    Thank goodness we have an administration with well thought out plans to reduce government spending. 🤦🏻‍♂️

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The scary part is that with this kind of sliding towards fascism ......

    They'll probably come up with some weird obscure, illegal, undemocratic way to fund their ICE machine .... taking over property, taking control of assets, seizing bank accounts, just generally stealing money from those they can to keep doing what they're doing.

    Look at Nazi Germany ... we keep referring to that history ... it keeps happening ... we point it out ... no one does anything.

    Nazi Germany initially got direct help and financing from industrial and corporate Europe and North America to get on its feet. How the hell do you think Germany who was forbidden from building a military got to build a massive invasion force in front of everyone's eyes for years before the start of the first invasion?

    Once Nazi Germany got enough power, financing and control of everything ... they just started outright stealing everyone's money, property, bank accounts and assets starting with Jews they persecuted ... then they started moving down the line to more and more people, companies and corporations to steal from everywhere.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    But therein also lies the difference. And I say this not to deride your absolutely necessary call for action, but to offer a measure of hope; Nazi Germany was smart enough to maintain good relationships with the rest of the world until they were ready to start pressing ahead with their plans full speed. Trump's government has the same goals, but fails to even clear the disastrously low bar of competence set by the Nazis. Where the Nazis built international relations, Trump is tearing them down. Where the Nazis used borrowed money and borrowed time to build up their economy, Trump is destroying what little domestic production America had in his hamfisted attempts to make more.

    The Nazis got away with it for so long because, ultimately, they were popular, and they were - seemingly - making Germany better. Trump has entirely failed to replicate their success in this regard. Nothing on the scale of the No Kings protests ever happened in Nazi Germany.

    The American people can win this. It is not too late to reclaim your country.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Hooray, they'll run out of money soon. Hooray, they'll cut services to make us pay for the shortfall. Hooray, we're completely fucked.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    SO? WHY do you Think they ELIMINATED my Social Security, VA Benefits, Job and Child's Education? This is AFFORDABLE now!

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Someone should tell the Department of Government Efficiency that they have been staying in The Hilton. Probably flying first class too.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    They haven't found their Adolf Eichmann

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    That's what they said about the war in Ukraine. No one just "runs out of money" these days.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Abolish ICE! Defund ICE!

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