This analysis came out earlier this month, and it’s the mother of all wake-up calls. Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” would appropriate $200 billion to ICE, which the Cato Institute has called an “unimaginable sum.” Some relevant quotes:
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates the bill will direct an astounding $168 billion of the budget to immigration and border law enforcement, and there is even more for agencies that indirectly support immigration law enforcement.
The $168 billion is, by itself, an unimaginable sum. Without H.R. 1, Congress had already appropriated twice as much money to America’s border police as all other federal law enforcement combined. In FY 2025, immigration and border enforcement accounted for at least two-thirds of all federal law enforcement.
In FY 2025—again, before H.R. 1—Congress allocated nearly $34 billion to immigration and border enforcement agencies. That’s 36 times more than what is provided for tax and financial crimes enforcement (IRS-Treasury), 21 times more than funding for firearms enforcement (ATF), 13 times more than drug enforcement (DEA), and 8 times more than the FBI budget to enforce effectively everything else. The level of border police spending is already so extreme that it has swamped nearly all other criminal law enforcement priorities for the federal government.
The House plans to distort this wildly out-of-whack law enforcement system beyond recognition. H.R. 1 appropriates $168 billion to agencies whose primary purpose is immigration enforcement. It adds $1.2 billion to all other law enforcement for the Secret Service. This sum comes on top of the $33 billion, meaning that if this bill passes, about $200 billion will be made available for immigration enforcement starting in FY 2025.
$200 billion dollars is equivalent to 1/5th of our entire military budget ($960 billion). It’s more than Russia’s entire military spending in 2024 ($149 billion). To say that Trump would be creating a 7th branch of the military operating on US soil would be neither an overstatement nor a conspiracy theory.
For context, this article was published by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank originally founded by Charles Koch (among others). The fact that these guys are ringing the alarm bell should be a warning unto itself. You can read the full text of the bill (H.R. 1) here.
All of which is going to be funneled directly into the pockets of Trump’s tech bro friends via contracts with data companies like Palantir.
Acquire weapons. Melt the ice.
Or as Nazi Germany had, the SA, who are later replaced by the SS
Can’t have food for starving infants but we’ll spend a fifth a trillion on the masked, jeaned gestapo to kick the American gulag and genocide project into high gear.
“Responsible Spending” 🤣
You heard it wrong. You thought they said “here’s responsible spending” however they actually said “irresponsible spending”
Spoiler alert: they’re going to enforce a lot more than immigration.
Yeah, that is SS funding money, complete with a Waffen SS branch.
Fucking bingo.
For context, this article was published by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank originally founded by Charles Koch (among others). The fact that these guys are ringing the alarm bell should be a warning unto itself. You can read the full text of the bill (H.R. 1) here.
I don’t think it should be a warning into itself. They basically provide a libertarian view on everything which doesn’t seem to be augmented by real world politics. I’ve noticed they do that in many situations, some mostly unnoticed by most people in western countries, and some politically heated. That’s a very good commendation IMHO, that they are still doing what they were supposed to do.
About the thing itself - border police also seems to be one military structure in your country relatively less accountable than those 3-letter agencies wearing black and fighting aliens and loudly breathing in our phone calls.
And it’s possible that Trump wants to have it as his own terror force, like some Gypsy baron gone dictator.
MAGA is building its own secret police SS force. What a surprise that absolutely no one could see coming /s.
I dunno, “secret” doesn’t seem to be exactly the word.
The Democrats are already drafting up a cutting, sternly worded letter.
I bet Susan Collins will be concerned about it (but still vote 100% for everything)
What does this have to do with the Democrats? Or did you just want to shoehorn them in?
They could filibuster the bill and shut down the government, which would be an objectively better outcome than allowing the gestapo to sweep through the nation. They won’t though.
This is what America chose. Enjoy it, idiots.
Especially when these right wing libertarian morons get to enjoy what they supported.
They did?
https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2025-06-26/marines-budget-2026-18253650.html
The [Marines] $57.2 billion budget request is part of the Navy’s $292.2 billion overall proposed spending plan for fiscal 2026, which begins Oct. 1. The budget request reflects a more than 6% increase from the 2025 request.
More then three times the budget of the Marines.
I guess they aren’t spending it on uniforms. I wonder where all that money is going?
Someone’s personal islands after going through a chain of offshores. I don’t think they are going to really build an SS. They already have everything to build it much cheaper.
They will for sure going to spend it at Hugo Boss
My guess: robocops
an americans seemigly will bravely bend over and take it
A lot of us aren’t/won’t
…I mean… one guy tried, but he’s dead now. The rest of us are either bitching into the void, or actively loving all the evil shit coming from this administration.
So, my money’s on we’ll just continue to bend over and take it.
if you are not planning or participating in a general strike or a full city take down… you are just in the “thoughts and prayers” useless wagon
Hate to burst your bubble…
Don’t draw attention to yourself.
That’s not the bubble.
