To review the potential impact of the total cuts of $2.6 billion. let us look at how the President proposed to spend his $23.5 billion that he proposes for the administration of justice accounts. Again. we cannot be sure specifically what will be cut. but it is clear that there will have to be significant cuts of the Presidents request. He wants $2.5 billion for the FBI. $818 million for the DEA. $2.2 billion to build Federal prisons and maintain them. $949 million for Federal prosecutors. $372 million for interagency drug enforcement task forces which every State in the Nation is asking for help on. and S1.7 billion for immigration enforcement. None of us can say where the cuts will have to be made. but if this budget passes. the appropriators are going to have to go out and find that moneyhundreds of millions of dollars to cut from each or all of those accounts. There is no way to avoid it.
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