I don’t ever want to hear people like John Kerry tell me again that “no government has the money to fix the climate crisis.” Absolutely just fuck the hell off with that, it was bullshit then and it’s even more transparently bullshit now. (15/15)

If we chose to make solving the debt, development, global health, and climate crises our priorities, instead of trying to make autocratic white nationalism official government policy, imagine the resources we could find and the solutions we could fund. (14/15)

Obviously the GOP is trying to pay for this by doing abhorrent things like slashing Medicaid and other essential social services, so it’s not as if the money is coming from nowhere. But the point remains: if people in power decide something is important, they find the resources. (13/15)

The $200 billion Congress wants to spend on detaining and deporting immigrants is 11,428x more than the paltry $17.5 million US contribution to the Fund for Responding to Loss & Damage - the flagship multilateral fund for supporting developing countries as they recover from climate impacts. (12/15)

The $200 billion Congress wants to spend on detaining and deporting immigrants is 1,000x more than the annualized contribution the U.S. has made to the @greenclimate.fund - $2 billion over the past 10 years for the world's premier multilateral climate finance institution. (11/15)

The $200 billion Congress wants to spend on detaining and deporting immigrants is almost 10x more than ACTUAL climate finance flows from ALL developed countries, according to Oxfam’s Climate Finance Shadow Report analysis which puts those flows at $21-24 billion per year. (10/15)

The $200 billion Congress wants to spend on detaining and deporting immigrants is 2x the annual climate finance target from 2020-2035, and two-thirds of the revised target in the NCQG agreed last year. Those are targets for ALL developed countries, not just the US. (9/15)

The $200 billion Congress wants to spend on detaining and deporting immigrants is 625x more than the annualized amount that the U.S. has contributed to the Gavi vaccine alliance over 25 years ($8 billion total, or $320 million per year). (8/15)

The $200 billion Congress wants to spend on detaining and deporting immigrants is 2.5x than food assistance from ALL donor countries, which FAO estimates to be about $76 billion per year from 2017-2021. (7/15)

The $200 billion Congress wants to spend on detaining and deporting immigrants is 4x all U.S. foreign aid in 2023 (not including aid to Israel and Ukraine), before Trump's foreign assistance freeze. 2023 US foreign totaled $71 billion; $20 billion of that was to Ukraine and Israel alone. (6/15)

OK now for the “fun” part. The $200 billion Congress wants to spend on detaining and deporting immigrants is more than the widely recognized UN ODA target of 0.7% of GNI. In 2023, US GNI was about $27.5 trillion; 0.7% of that is $193 billion. (5/15)

What if we compare to other law enforcement spending? This graphic from the Cato Institute of all places tells the story. (4/15)

Second, CBP and ICE funding peaked last year at nearly $30 billion. That was a record high, and now suddenly we’re talking about essentially increasing it BY AN ORDER OF MAGNITUDE. (3/15)

First of all, let’s be clear that ICE is basically acting as Trump’s unaccountable secret police force. They wear masks, they don’t identify themselves, they literally kidnap people off the street, they arrest and detain U.S. citizens and elected officials. (2/15)

Nope there's no inner public layer. The $300bn is just like the $100bn, maybe worse bc of how MDB finance will be counted. And the $1.3tn is a meaningless accounting exercise of how much climate investment is happening globally. Not even really an "outer layer" in any real sense.

Transparently obvious distraction tactic. Would be laughable if it weren't still effective sometimes