This is blatantly illegal since a judge recently ruled they MUST allow congressional visits:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/ice-inspectio...

The DHS (Kristi Noem) now claims their repeat of the same illegal policy is now legal because it is using a different funding source, which is obviously false. It’s all the same pool of money.

The "pool of money" idea itself has got to go. Government spending and revenues operate much more like sources and sinks than a purse.

Spending injects money into the economy and revenues extract it. The two roughly balance each other but only because overspending/undertaxing increases the money supply in negative ways and under pending/overtaxing decreased the money supply in other negative ways. Besides these, interest rates are the third lever of the economic engine.

The constraint is inflation rather than solvency for states who have monetary sovereignty.

I get the appeal and the logical, rational appeal of the purse model, but it leads to a warped idea of how the government and economy interact.

What color are your tax dollars?

Their bet is that they will not follow the law, nothing will be done about it, and Americans will be ok with it.

So far, that has been the case. The constitution has become meaningless thanks to maga, and you're better off recognizing that America no longer exists the way you thought about the country.