Dictator Trump to spend $45B on concentration camps, 4x what was spent on affordable housing last year

[IrishBubbaLiberal]

An astonishing figure in this piece:

Last year, the U.S. budgeted $12.8B for new affordable housing.

This country is now poised to spend $45B on immigrant detention centers.

That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.

An astonishing figure in this piece:

Last year, the U.S. budgeted .8B for new affordable housing.

This country is now poised to spend B on immigrant detention centers.

That's nearly *four times* as much on cages as on homes—in the middle of a devastating housing and homelessness crisis.

— Brian Goldstone (@brian-goldstone.bsky.social) 2025-07-07T13:31:42.786Z

https://newrepublic.com/article/197619/trump-immigration-labor-camps

[Irish_Dem]

1. How much goes into his pocket with these stunts?

[C_U_L8R]

2. The immigration problem is not that large

Those cages are for the rest of us.