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FL Panhandle | “Those estimates do not include any effects on discretionary spending (which is controlled by appropriation acts), though CBO expects the immigration surge will put pressure on the budgets of many programs and activities funded through discretionary appropriations, including some administered or undertaken by the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Refugee Resettlement (in the Department of Health and Human Services). Funding for certain discretionary activities related specifically to immigration totaled $37 billion in 2024—an increase of $1 billion from the 2019 amount after the effects of inflation are removed—and the Administration has requested additional funding for 2024.
In addition, the surge is likely to affect other discretionary programs whose operations are affected by the size of the population, including those that provide funding for elementary and secondary education, income support, and infrastructure. If discretionary funding for the broad budget categories that are likely to be affected by a larger population was increased in proportion to the increase in the population from the surge, those funding increases would total $24 billion in 2034 and $0.2 trillion over the 2024–2034 period, CBO estimates.”
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Country that is poorer than all 50 US states
