ICE funding could cover a third of SNAP, the entire school lunch program, Section 8 housing vouchers, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a quarter of federal spending on K - 12 education, and a fifth of the costs of disability insurance.
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Opinion | How the money in ICE’s ballooning budget could have been used to help Americans
Philip Bump: Had the Trump administration spent on assistance for Americans in need, rather than on a punitive effort to uproot immigrants — here’s how it might have looked.