The incoming Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is taking aim at the burden illegal immigration places on U.S. taxpayers.
The government cost-cutting initiative, co-led by billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, took to X on Monday to highlight the price tag of illegal immigration compared to the cost of World War I and an array of major American projects, adjusting for inflation.
Illegal immigration: $150.7 billion
In the post, DOGE said illegal immigration cost U.S. taxpayers $150.7 billion in 2023 alone.
The agency cited figures from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which arrived at the number by adding the total federal, state and local expenditures on illegal immigration and subtracting the total tax contributions made by illegal immigrants.