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Originally Posted by pria(kin)16
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe the UN commitments would be involved in this $18.4B figure and would be lumped in with new spending to be revealed March 22nd. Any guess what the number will look like with new spending added in? Are we going to get a number on what the Syrian refugee program has cost to date? I have a feeling the final number will be significantly higher than $18.4B
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From what I heard over the weekend, and don't quote me on it, but the Feds had originally bookmarked $100 million for the refugees, as a WAG (Wild a%%ed guessed) but the cost is sitting around $1.2 billion, and probably still climbing.
What I want to know is how much of that cost is coming out of the defense budget who are the ones paying for the infrastructure on the base housing and how much is coming out of Immigrations budget.
The UN check I think which is a couple of billion as well is probably going to be in the upcoming budget.
From what I've seen flipping through the news is the expected budget deficit for 2016 will probably be between 32 and 38 billion.
But again don't quote me on that.