I don't understand this budget. So in 2016 BIA submitted a report to Congress estimating that to provide a minimum, a minimum, base level of public safety and judicial services to all federally-recognized tribes, it would cost approximately $2.3 billion.
Heitkamp critiques the budget's inadequacy for tribal public safety needs.
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