The agency charged with carrying out President Trump's mass deportation promises has warned Congress it is short a whopping $2 billion for this fiscal year, Axios has learned. Why it matters: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) repeatedly has faced significant budget shortfalls in recent years.

A report from the Government Accountability Office found that ICE has regularly overspent in recent years, often pulling resources from other parts of DHS. Senator James Lankford

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is reportedly already $2 billion short to keep up its current pace of operations through the end of this fiscal year, as it races to keep up with the Trump administration ’s promises to rapidly deport millions of undocumented migrants.