When the GOP-controlled Congress agreed in July to allocate some $170 billion to fund President Donald Trump’s hardline deportation agenda over the next four years, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s annual budget tripled to almost $30 billion.
And while ICE is spending a portion of its massive windfall on a fleet of brand-new SUVs, pickups, and sports cars, the U.S. Marshals Service – which has an annual budget of less than $4 billion – has been forced to buy used.