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Thoughts On U.S. Government Shutdown

Oct. 27, 2025 Editor, The News-Gazette: Some thoughts to pass along: The BBB Act passed and signed into law earlier this year tripled the yearly budget for ICE. According to the Brennan Center, a nonpartisan law and policy institute, this means the yearly budget for ICE is now more than the combined annual budgets for law enforcement spent by state and local governments in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

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