The Homeland Security budget outline includes money to start hiring new immigration and border agents. Scrapping the team, the budget documents show, would save the government about US$43 million. The budget documents also call for cancelling a roughly US$500 million new ship, described as "unplanned and unwanted". According to the Coast Guard website, the ship is under production. The budget documents do not show how the savings from the Coast Guard cuts would be spent.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 28, 2017 23:37 UTC