washington two study president donald trump hop buttress case cut number refugees heart fight senior white house adviser stephen miller career u.s. government officials immigration policy four current former officials say trump march order u.s. state department agencies tally cost resettle refugees benefit policy experts say refugees also bring include tax revenues professional skills job creation current official say miller convene meet state department staffers discuss refugee cost report department specialists propose include refugees economic contributions study produce balance assessment miller rebuff idea one current one former u.s. official say white house say miller hold meet specific subject cost report trump overall fiscal year 2018 budget proposal seek make transparent net budgetary effect immigration program policy current former officials speak condition anonymity say believe however administration want help make case restrict refugee flow create skew analysis policy outcome search rationale say former u.s. official familiar debate white house dispute notion miller seek tailor outcome report compile mainly state department bureau population refugees migration prm idea order bias report false say michael short white house spokesman tensions report due september previously report miller history back curb immigration architect trump order january suspend refugee program 120 days refugees syria indefinitely order also temporarily bar travelers seven muslim-majority countries largely block court second executive order miller available interview r.c hammond senior adviser secretary state rex tillerson say department staffer attend budget meet recall miller suggest state department review methodology find exist study refugees essentially suggest learn others examine issue see anything learn hammond say email colleague take away sense instructions give include include certain information hammond identify state department staffer tensions government trump immigration policies begin trump executive order prompt 900 state department employees sign internal memo dissent january weeks late right-wing breitbart website close tie white house publish story call fire among others two top officials department health human service office refugee resettlement three senior officials prm bureau breitbart list officials name mention report refugee cost career officials fire reassign evidence five reassign trump promise hardline immigration policy 2016 presidential campaign call one point complete ban muslims enter unite state cite security reason amid series attack worldwide islamist militants first report trump order tally estimate long-term cost unite state refugee admissions program federal state local level along recommendations curtail cost trump direct second report estimate many refugees support countries first asylum near home countries long-term cost support refugees unite state take account full lifetime cost federal state local benefit comparable cost provide similar benefit elsewhere refugee policy experts say refugees support third-country camp give sum settle unite state support provide permanent solution resettlement study show refugees enter unite state require government service immigrants whole scholars differ long-term economic impact accept refugees depress low-skilled workers wag require workers help pay social service refugees receive first eight years unite state refugees receive benefit pay tax study publish month nonprofit national bureau economic research say eighth year tax pay tend great benefit receive average 21,000 20-year period study find jessica vaughan center immigration study favor limit immigration agree account trump order limit cost fair consider fiscal benefit say four current former u.s. officials say high-level white house focus report send clear signal outcome trump want white house call express interest ... report nature give things national security council people around president worry send enormously profound signal bureaucracy one former officials say white house pressure state department refugee cost source