Immigration and Customs Enforcement could “run out of money by next month,” according to a report from Axios.
The outlet reports the agency is “already $1 billion over budget” as it carries out multiple raids across the country. Axios' lawmaker sources said the Department of Homeland Security, which is in charge of ICE, could be violating “U.S. law if it continues to spend at its current pace.”
“Trump's DHS is spending like drunken sailors," Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) told the outlet.
He later added, “They are spending likely in the neighborhood of a billion dollars more at ICE than we authorized, and that's patently illegal.”
Axios sources claim the overspending is a violation of the Antideficiency Act. The Government Accountability Office says the act “prohibits federal agencies from obligating or expending federal funds in advance or in excess of an appropriation, and from accepting voluntary services.”
Any agency head who violates the act could face criminal charges.