Shumita Basu

And over the weekend, he told CBS's Face the Nation that Republicans could separate the DHS funding bill from the other areas of government.

The size and scale of ICE has changed dramatically in Trump's second term.

Ten years ago, its yearly budget was less than $6 billion.

But thanks to the GOP tax and spending bill passed last year, the agency now has around $85 billion at its disposal.

That makes it the highest funded law enforcement agency in the country.

In fact, according to The Atlantic, the overall amount of money appropriated for immigration enforcement last year amounted to more than recent annual military budgets of any country besides China and the United States.

Over a million without power, thousands of flights canceled, and a state of emergency in 23 states.

The massive winter storm pummeled eastern and southern parts of the country yesterday, with wind chills as low as minus 20s and 30s.

The snow plows are hard at work, but millions of Americans across states from Texas to Massachusetts woke up yesterday greeted by at least several inches of snow.

And officials are warning of days of freezing temperatures and disruption ahead.

Southern states, which are less accustomed to extreme winter weather, were hit particularly hard.

In Mississippi, about 10 percent of customers were without power by Sunday afternoon.

Governor Tate Reeves warned that restoring power could take several days.

Similar warnings were heard in states like Louisiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee.

In Nashville, where over 200,000 lost power,

Trees were pictured collapsing under the weight of the ice and affecting electricity lines.

One woman described the moment she realized a tree had landed in her backyard to the local station WKRN.

Some of the country's busiest streets were nearly empty, and many retail and hospitality businesses opted to remain shut yesterday.

In New York City, the mayor, Zohran Mamdani, announced that public school kids would be remote learning today, opting against a snow day off.

At airports, more than 11,000 flights were canceled, the worst single day since the start of the COVID pandemic, according to one flight tracker.