This Budget is a Death Sentence

A Blueprint for State Terror and Working-class Repression

The United States just passed a budget that doesn’t just neglect its people but also actively targets them. This isn’t mismanagement; this is imperial domestic strategy. Every dollar slashed from Medicaid and handed to ICE is a choice. A choice to fund death over life. A choice to strengthen the boot instead of the bandage. A choice to escalate the colonial logic this country was founded on: control, extraction, extermination.

ICE is now the most bloated law enforcement agency in the United States. Its budget is larger than the FBI, the DEA, and the entire federal prison system combined. That is not just overreach. That is escalation. It is the sharpening of the spear pointed not just at the border but at Black, Brown, Queer and other por, marginalized communities everywhere. It is the swift consolidation of a domestic counterinsurgency force that is preparing night and day for the next wave of popular resistance.

And don’t you dare pretend this is just a Trump problem. The Biden administration laid the groundwork for this with its cowardice, its betrayals, and its refusal to roll back a single inch of the post-9/11 fascist security state. The Democrats could have cut ICE. They could have demilitarized the border. They could have protected immigrants and poor people. Instead, they chose photo ops and empty gestures. Chuck Schumer even bragged about “renaming the bill” from Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill as if that was some great victory. Meanwhile, their only achievement is leavign us all high and dry with an even bigger boot on our collective necks.

Over $100 billion is being handed to ICE to detain, deport, disappear. To fortify camps. To militarize neighborhoods. To surveil and suppress. This is not public safety. This is domestic colonialism. It is the logic of empire turned inward, aimed at the people the system no longer finds profitable to keep alive.

Meanwhile, Medicaid is being gutted. Federal funding is dropping. States will either have to cut services or kick people off entirely. Millions will lose access to care. That means more missed diagnoses. More untreated illnesses. More unnecessary deaths. And it is not an accident. This isn’t a bug. It is a feature.

This budget is not broken. It is a machine of slow, grinding genocide. It doesn’t fail to care for people. It refuses to. It prioritizes domination over dignity. It spends your money not to help you live, but to make sure you die quiet and alone.

This is not a government. This is an empire in decline, turning its full weight against the most vulnerable to protect the wealthy and maintain the illusion of control. It is an executioner with a spreadsheet.

And it just signed your death warrant.

This Budget is a Death Sentence.