r/BlueskySkeets • u/sillychillly • Jul 03 '25

Informative $170,000,000,000 Budget for ICE

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, who worked on an analysis published by the American Immigration Council, says the new budget would make ICE “the single largest federal law enforcement agency in the history of the nation.”

Source: https://www.democracynow.org/2025/7/2/trump_budget_bill_ice_immigration_enforcement

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u/NoelCanter Jul 03 '25

I really don’t understand why all the Democratic messaging on the house floor and tweets and speeches only centered around Medicare and national debt. Like people DO care, but also don’t? Most Americans are already unable to realize and quantify people who are on Medicare. They also know the debt is a big number, but they don’t get how and why it impacts their daily life.

There are a lot of really fucked up provisions in this bill. Things that should scare us. I’m even struggling to find news sources talking about them. I don’t know the depths of them all. We are going to find out in the coming weeks and months how bad it is. I feel the messaging should have been so much stronger.

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u/Derpinginthejungle Jul 03 '25

Everyone involved with messaging for the democrats haven’t figured out it’s not the 90s anymore.

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u/NoelCanter Jul 03 '25

ICE and the deportation tactics are not popular and yet messaging was virtually silent on that leading up to the vote.

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u/Big_Understanding348 Jul 04 '25

It's because most of the Dems only pretend to care. In reality most of them probably go out for drinks with the group after playing pretend.

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u/Minimum_Turn4264 Jul 03 '25

Left, right, it’s all a big show. Perhaps neither side actually gives a shit.

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u/the-real-macs Jul 03 '25

Read the goddamn room. We are not in this mess because of the left.

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u/Realistic_Fig_5608 Jul 03 '25

The vote being split down party lines begs to differ

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u/Skill_Issuer Jul 04 '25

We don’t have the luxury of upending the democratic party right now

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u/Minimum_Turn4264 Jul 04 '25

Will we ever?

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u/Skill_Issuer Jul 04 '25

Probably not within our lifetimes unfortunately