ICE is, by one estimate, on track to be $1 billion over budget.

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Russell Vought is an evil man IMHO!!


Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew

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ICE is, by one estimate, on track to be $1 billion over budget.

If you are wondering how agencies are allowed to spend money they don’t have, the answer is simple: They are not.

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How did ICE break the bank?
Congress should ask the budget director

Cerin Lindgrensavage and Christie Wentworth Jun 23, 2025

https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-did-ice-break-the-bank

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is, by one estimate, on track to be $1 billion over budget. And with more than three months left in the fiscal year, the agency is preparing to come hat in hand to Congress asking for more.

This Wednesday, the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Russell Vought will appear before the Senate Appropriations Committee.

At that hearing, senators should grill him on this apparent overspending. It will be a rare opportunity for the American people to learn about how the White House has been managing funds appropriated by Congress, how ICE spending is so dramatically over-budget, and why — by all appearances — the administration seems to be ignoring the laws Congress created to ensure that taxpayer dollars are responsibly managed.
Apportionments exist in part to prevent the administration from overspending

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Since the 1870s, Congress has made it illegal for agencies to spend money that Congress hasn’t provided. In fact, the law preventing overspending comes with individual penalties for any federal employee caught violating it, from administrative discipline all the way up to two years of jail time.

To keep agencies from spending too much or too fast, Congress — as the branch of government vested with power over spending — gave the president a special planning tool: apportionments.


Apportionments work like an allowance. After Congress passes a spending bill and the president signs it into law, the president, through OMB, gives agencies money at certain rates or for specific projects. ................



Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray
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Jun 25
Russ Vought is already illegally withholding hundreds of billions in federal funding from our communities.

Now, he's refusing to rule out cutting off even more funding with a new, illegal end run around Congress.

He's ignoring common sense & the plain text of the law.

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[Hey Joe]

1. Whenever I hear Russell Vought speak

It always brings to mind the now well known phrase, - the banality of evil-
He embodies those words like no one else I can think of.

[Skittles]

2. WASTE. FRAUD AND ABUSE

CALLING DOGE!!!