Womp Womp: ICE Complains Of $2B Budget Shortfall

Axios reports:

The agency charged with carrying out President Trump’s mass deportation promises has warned Congress it is short a whopping $2 billion for this fiscal year, Axios has learned.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) repeatedly has faced significant budget shortfalls in recent years. Trump’s immigration plans — which include deporting “millions” of unauthorized immigrants — would rack up costs even more.

Congress would send ICE an extra $500 million in the stop-gap spending bill that passed the House and is being debated in the Senate. But that wouldn’t come close to covering the nearly $2 billion the agency told Congress it needs just to keep up the work it’s doing through the end of September.

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