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According to author Don Winslow, ICE’s new budget exceeds that of the Marine’s, following the passage of Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’.

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This claim is false. ICE’s current annual budget is around $10 billion. According to Snopes, "The agency plans to spend $10.4 billion in budget year 2025 — which runs from Oct. 1, 2024 to Sept. 30, 2025 — according to a budget overview document." Regarding Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, which was passed by the Senate on July 3, 2025, "the agency would receive an infusion of more than $100 billion through 2029: $45 billion for detention facilities, $46 billion for border wall operations in the U.S.-Mexico border and $14 billion for deportation operations" (TIME). Compared to the U.S. Marines, Stars and Stripes reported "the service’s $53.7 billion budget request is part of the Navy’s $257 billion overall proposed spending plan for fiscal 2025, which [began] Oct. 1." 

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