There's also the extraordinary shifting of funds that happens inside these budgets and the budget that Senator Britt and I wrote last Congress for the Homeland Security Department. The administration just took $600 million that was dedicated for non-detention and declared that it would now be eligible for detention. We've never seen that at that kind of scale before. And then there's this problem of the money that we are appropriating being used for purposes that are totally disconnected from the statutes, from the authorizing statutes. (01:16–01:27)
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