The executive branch is allowed to move money appropriated by Congress from one agency to another within a department, and this Trump administration would not be the first to do so in order to make up for an ICE budget shortfall.

Trump fired some top officials and ended DEI programs, but experts say it’s unlikely those actions affected the operations of the aircraft

The Trump Administration could start pulling money from the TSA and Coast Guard. Immigration Customs Enforcement needs more money to meet President Trump’s deportation goals. According to NBC News – ICE is facing a budget shortfall.

President Donald Trump has moved quickly to remake the Department of Homeland Security by firing the heads of the Transportation Security Administration and Coast Guard before their terms are up while eliminating all the members of a key aviation security advisory group.

Two sources familiar with the plan told NBC News the Trump administration is considering pulling funding from TSA and redirecting it to ICE.

One widely shared claim was that Trump fired 3,000 air traffic controllers shortly after taking office for his second term. One post alone (archived) making this claim had received more than 2.7 million views and 25,

Trump administration scrambling for more ICE funds as agency targets more than 1,200 arrests a day - Anadolu Ajansı

The average cost to ICE to deport a single person during the Biden administration was about $10,500, sources told NBC News.

Democratic California Rep. Norma Torres is doubling down on holding President Donald Trump responsible for contributing to the fatal aircraft

To carry out its mass deportation plans, the government is also considering redirecting money from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

Even as emergency responders were working to recover the remains of passengers and crew members who died in the January 29 midair collision near the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, social media users,

Trump’s federal hiring freeze and aviation security changes come under scrutiny after a fatal midair crash near D.C.