Senator Chris Murphy, the party’s top member on the DHS appropriations subcommittee, said that, “Trump’s DHS is spending like drunken sailors,” adding, “They cannot invent money. They cannot print money. They don’t have the money to spend that they’re spending,” as quoted in the report.
I would question how exactly ICE alone are already $1B over budget if they have no authorization to spend money beyond their budget. Or assumedly not spend $1B beyond the budget… Hows that work?
Also, obligatory “fuck you” to the economic times for trying to not let me copy text
I don’t know this as fact but my guess would be they’re over last year’s budget.
They’ve been taking money from other parts of DHS to continue working. When the money runs out, that means the entire DHS budget runs out and they won’t be able to as easily appropriate more since it would have to come from another department
I would question how exactly ICE alone are already $1B over budget if they have no authorization to spend money beyond their budget. Or assumedly not spend $1B beyond the budget… Hows that work?
Also, obligatory “fuck you” to the economic times for trying to not let me copy text
I don’t know this as fact but my guess would be they’re over last year’s budget.
They’ve been taking money from other parts of DHS to continue working. When the money runs out, that means the entire DHS budget runs out and they won’t be able to as easily appropriate more since it would have to come from another department