Big Beautiful Bill Bolsters Immigration Enforcement Budget

President Trump signed the Big Beautiful Bill into law.  It puts big money — $100 billion — into immigration enforcement. Documented highlights news articles that describe the impacts of the budgetary allocation.

According to calculations by Mother Jones, the staggering allocation is: 568 times the cost to pay all U.S. students’ public school lunch debt; 140 times the cost to make New York City buses free; 12 times the 2023 Federal Bureau of Prisons budget 7 times the 2021 federal child care funding 4.4 times what the US has spent on Israel’s military since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks. 

NPR reports that the bill shifts resources from the social safety net and investments in clean energy, and reorients them to tax cuts, immigration enforcement and national defense.

The New Republic observes that it is impossible to overstate how much power ICE just got from Trump’s budget. 

KJ