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Bagenstos: ICE funding is a "blank check"

April 14, 2026 NPR
Samuel Bagenstos

"ICE funding is not a collection of targeted funds. Instead, it is more like a blank check. Here what we have is just a massive shoveling of cash to an agency with few if any strings," he says. "I can't think of an example that's anywhere close to that."

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Samuel R. Bagenstos

Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy
Samuel R. Bagenstos is Frank G. Millard Professor of Law and Arlene Susan Kohn Professor of Social Policy at the University of Michigan. He served as General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Office of Management and Budget in the Biden administration.