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More guns, less butter: How massive federal funding increases for ICE are costing us all
On July 4, 2025, President Donald Trump signed into law H.R. 1, also known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), which cut hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid and SNAP, our country’s core basic needs programs. These cuts paid primarily for two things: 1) a tax package that gives the biggest tax cuts to the nation’s wealthiest, and 2) an extreme spending increase on immigration enforcement.