WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley issued the following press release:
Today, U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate Budget Committee, led 20 of his Senate colleagues in calling on the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to probe the cost of President Donald Trump's violent escalation of federal immigration enforcement. The senators are requesting a comprehensive assessment and accounting of the supplemental funds, including the roughly $75 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and approximately $65 billion for Customs and Border Protection (CBP), provided by Trump's Big, Ugly Betrayal Bill.
"Last summer, Congress provided extraordinary supplemental resources for immigration enforcem...